Authenticate This COACH - **see first post for format**

[Vlad]

IMPORTANT READ-ME

Please post authenticity questions related to COACH in this thread. No PMs please.
For further information, please refer to the first post on page 1 of this thread.

Please follow the following requests:

• Before you submit a request for authentication, please search this thread to make sure that the item has not previously been authenticated by searching the seller ID and/or item number. This is not a thread to ask general questions about COACH, please refer to our main Coach forum for such information.
• Note that authenticators have the right to refuse any requests. This is a free service, but it is imperative that you help our authenticators by using the following format:
• FOR ITEMS LISTED ONLINE:
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  Listing number:
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• FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED ONLINE:
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  Where purchased or how obtained
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BASIC PICTURES REQUIRED (but more may be requested): If necessary pictures are in the listing, it's not necessary to upload and duplicate them.

• Front of item
• Back of item
• Full clear and legible creed text and serial number
• Made in tags (when available)
• Measurements
• For bags with turnlock closures, show pictures of back of female side of turnlock
• For bags with magnetic snaps, show pictures of the male part of the snap so that the numbers and letters on it can be read
• If applicable, search interior of bag and/or pockets for small white tag with production information and include a picture of that.

Thank you and be safe!

 

[Tara Jenner]

Thank you Hyacinth for your opinion and the extra info you provided.
I'm going to have to ask how to multi quote so my original post asking about the bag shows up too. I can do it on other forums...this one I'm clueless about.

 

[Tara Jenner]

Luckily was a gift .
Thank you

 

[Celeste U.]

Hi. If you have time kindly authenticate these bags. Thanks!

Bag #1
A friend gave me this bag.



Bag # 2
This is posted on FB (being sold. I just wanted to make sure if it's fake or not.)

 

[BeenBurned]

Hi. If you have time kindly authenticate these bags. Thanks!

Bag #1
A friend gave me this bag.
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Bag # 2
This is posted on FB (being sold. I just wanted to make sure if it's fake or not.)

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Bag #1 looks okay.

Bag #2 - I have questions. Is the Facebook seller in the Philippines? The pictures were found on a Filippino website (OLX) and it looks like that bag was listed in February, 2017. Unless the bag in the pictures is the actual bag you're going to get, I can't recommend it.

ETA: regarding bag 2, I can't pull up the Coach listing but this is another from the same seller with the same background:
https://ssl.olx.ph/item/nine-west-9-co-bags-ID7N6jf.html?p=3878&h=29443c6235

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi. If you have time kindly authenticate these bags. Thanks!

Bag #1
A friend gave me this bag.
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Bag # 2
This is posted on FB (being sold. I just wanted to make sure if it's fake or not.)

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Bag #1 looks okay.

Bag #2 - I have questions. Is the Facebook seller in the Philippines? The pictures were found on a Filippino website (OLX) and it looks like that bag was listed in February, 2017. Unless the bag in the pictures is the actual bag you're going to get, I can't recommend it.

ETA: regarding bag 2, I can't pull up the Coach listing but this is another from the same seller with the same background:
https://ssl.olx.ph/item/nine-west-9-co-bags-ID7N6jf.html?p=3878&h=29443c6235

I should probably never get involved with newer bags, but the creed patch in the second one worries me. Unfortunately there aren't any provably genuine examples from a Philippines plant in my files but the one photo below from a dfferent plant also shows a different font and version of the Coach logo at the top of the creed. The one in the questionable bag doesn't have the narrow+wide lettering that's on the known genuine one from the same year, both are from Fall 2016. I know it's not a fair comparison but since Coach had only just started putting real and valid serial numbers in their bags again during 2016 when it was made, wouldn't they have had to make brand new stamps with up to date lettering and fonts for ALL their plants? And it seems like all those stamps should have the same basic details for things like the Coach logo. These are both creeds for standard non-1941 styles. There's also a noticeable difference in the stamping quality of the creed lettering. There are even variations in the spacing and width of the letters across the same line of text, look at the differences between "authenticity" and "people".

I'm just not getting a good vibe from this one.

Top one is the one being questioned.

 

[BeenBurned]

Bag #1 looks okay.

Bag #2 - I have questions. Is the Facebook seller in the Philippines? The pictures were found on a Filippino website (OLX) and it looks like that bag was listed in February, 2017. Unless the bag in the pictures is the actual bag you're going to get, I can't recommend it.

ETA: regarding bag 2, I can't pull up the Coach listing but this is another from the same seller with the same background:
https://ssl.olx.ph/item/nine-west-9-co-bags-ID7N6jf.html?p=3878&h=29443c6235

I should probably never get involved with newer bags, but the creed patch in the second one worries me. Unfortunately there aren't any provably genuine examples from a Philippines plant in my files but the one photo below from a dfferent plant also shows a different font and version of the Coach logo at the top of the creed. The one in the questionable bag doesn't have the narrow+wide lettering that's on the known genuine one from the same year. I know it's not a fair comparison but since Coach had only just started putting real and valid serial numbers in their bags again during 2016 when it was made, wouldn't they have had to make brand new stamps with up to date lettering and fonts for ALL their plants? I'm just not getting a good vibe from this one.

Top is the one being questioned.

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Based my concern over stolen pictures from a Filippino website, Hyacinth's comments about differences between the bag in question (from a Facebook seller) and another bag from the same year and what we've seen in the past of the extremely close fakes coming out of the Philippines, not only do I not recommend the second seller or bag but I'll stress again that extreme caution should be exercised if buying from a seller in the Philippines.

 

[whateve]

I should probably never get involved with newer bags, but the creed patch in the second one worries me. Unfortunately there aren't any provably genuine examples from a Philippines plant in my files but the one photo below from a dfferent plant also shows a different font and version of the Coach logo at the top of the creed. The one in the questionable bag doesn't have the narrow+wide lettering that's on the known genuine one from the same year, both are from Fall 2016. I know it's not a fair comparison but since Coach had only just started putting real and valid serial numbers in their bags again during 2016 when it was made, wouldn't they have had to make brand new stamps with up to date lettering and fonts for ALL their plants? And it seems like all those stamps should have the same basic details for things like the Coach logo. These are both creeds for standard non-1941 styles.

I'm just not getting a good vibe from this one.

Top one is the one being questioned.

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I agree. The font, puffiness and uncrispness of the top one remind me of fakes I've seen.

 

[Belicious]

Got this from Goodwill boutique this morning. Medium size backpack. Please authenticate? Looks okay to me, but an extra hyphen in the creed after No:
ETA nickel hardware
approx. 10.5 x 9.5 x 6 inches

 

[whateve]

Got this from Goodwill boutique this morning. Medium size backpack. Please authenticate? Looks okay to me, but an extra hyphen in the creed after No:
ETA nickel hardware
approx. 10.5 x 9.5 x 6 inches

It's fine.

 

[ArengoKC]

Hello! I have 2 station bags - one black and one which i believe is navy- and i realized that the 2 have different straps altogether. The Navy, a pre 1994 bag, has the thinner non adjustable strap while the black, which is a more recent station bag, came with a wider adjustable strap. Did coach make the Station bag with 2 strap designs? Hope someone can enlighten me. Thank you in advance!

 

[fabfashionisto]

Hi!
I have here a coach bag that I found vintage shopping


The creed says no: 015-5935
**EDIT** Dimensions: about 13" across @ top and 9 1/2" tall



Looks and feels real nice leather but who can tell I would love confirmation regaurdless! I couldn't find anything else like it. I am more curious about the name of this style and the time period it was from.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello! I have 2 station bags - one black and one which i believe is navy- and i realized that the 2 have different straps altogether. The Navy, a pre 1994 bag, has the thinner non adjustable strap while the black, which is a more recent station bag, came with a wider adjustable strap. Did coach make the Station bag with 2 strap designs? Hope someone can enlighten me. Thank you in advance!

The 1999 Holiday catalog shows the Station Bag with a 48-inch adjustable strap, which may have been introduced a year earlier.. Earlier versions had a 44-inch removeable one-piece strap. Both bags are genuine.

 

[whateve]

Hi!
I have here a coach bag that I found vintage shopping
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The creed says no: 015-5935
**EDIT** Dimensions: about 13" across @ top and 9 1/2" tall

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Looks and feels real nice leather but who can tell I would love confirmation regaurdless! I couldn't find anything else like it. I am more curious about the name of this style and the time period it was from.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

It's an authentic Paris bag large from around 1989.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi!
I have here a coach bag that I found vintage shopping
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The creed says no: 015-5935
**EDIT** Dimensions: about 13" across @ top and 9 1/2" tall

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Looks and feels real nice leather but who can tell I would love confirmation regaurdless! I couldn't find anything else like it. I am more curious about the name of this style and the time period it was from.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

It's a genuine Paris Bag Large from the Lightweight line and made around 1989, style number 4105.

OOPS. Never mind.

 

[ArengoKC]

The 1999 Holiday catalog shows the Station Bag with a 48-inch adjustable strap, which may have been introduced a year earlier.. Earlier versions had a 44-inch removeable one-piece strap. Both bags are genuine.

Thank you so much, Hyacinth! Good to know! Will keep that in my knowledge bank.