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

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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:
    Item:
    Listing number:
    Seller and site where listed
    Link:
    Comments:

  • FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Where purchased or how obtained
    Comments:
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!
 
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#30,361
Is this bag fake?.. please confirm. I don't have any regular dinky to compare.

Item: Coach cornflower dinky
Link: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/253741731819

Seller: philosopher-queen2012

Comment: the hardware: the wrong orientation of the kisslock. The kisslock hardware.. isn't it always wrapped in brown color leather? The Creed patch.. I have never seen it on the kisslock pocket leather itself! The hardware also looks unusually shiny.
 
#30,362
lovethecoach said:
Thank you, BeenBurned, for your reply. As I am still learning about the creeds and their markings, I am curious about the dot, or indentation, that is on the creed under the "CO" of COACH. I've searched but not had any luck.

Has anyone seen a marking like this before, and do you know what it means, if anything?

...not sure what happened to our previous posts. Again, this is the listing:

Item: Vintage Coach City Bag
Listing number: 232837708813
Seller: debsw52
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/NIB-COACH-VINTAGE-CITY-BAG-MAHOGANY-CROSSBODY-SHOULDER-HANDBAG-PURSE-9790-USA/232837708813
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Are you talking about the indentation here? If so, that happens occasionally. When they were stamping the creed, there may have been a tiny stone, piece of dust or some other foreign object on the stamping device.

Again, that bag is authentic.
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#30,364
Hi y'all, went thrifting with fellow tpf Coachie SaraTHW and found a couple bags(one with a glued in serial that we're excited about but can't really identify) Any help authenticating as well as any clues to the red bag would be greatly appreciated

There are six bags so I've attached a link with the pictures

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D3oJKzu9F-_1fL8wTF7M39dulJGEbyhE?usp=sharing

Carson
No. 1602-342
11x6x3.5
Strap 47-48

Casino(missing strap)
No. G5D-9924
8x5x2

Red Basic Bag?(looks like a basic bag with the zipper pull)
No. 287-6939
11x6.5ishx2
Doubled over detachable strap

Regina
No. C4T-9870
8 x 6.5/7 x 3.5

Station
No. 0672-202
9x10.5
Long strap about 45

Stewardess
10x11x4
adjustable strap hard to measure about 16ish drop at longest
Very faded creed on bag in picture but reads
No. 984-3228
 
#30,365
JLP123 said:
Hi y'all, went thrifting with fellow tpf Coachie SaraTHW and found a couple bags(one with a glued in serial that we're excited about but can't really identify) Any help authenticating as well as any clues to the red bag would be greatly appreciated

There are six bags so I've attached a link with the pictures

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D3oJKzu9F-_1fL8wTF7M39dulJGEbyhE?usp=sharing

Carson
No. 1602-342
11x6x3.5
Strap 47-48

Casino(missing strap)
No. G5D-9924
8x5x2

Red Basic Bag?(looks like a basic bag with the zipper pull)
No. 287-6939
11x6.5ishx2
Doubled over detachable strap

Regina
No. C4T-9870
8 x 6.5/7 x 3.5

Station
No. 0672-202
9x10.5
Long strap about 45

Stewardess
10x11x4
adjustable strap hard to measure about 16ish drop at longest
Very faded creed on bag in picture but reads
No. 984-3228
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I have doubts about the Regina. The rest look authentic. The red one is a basic bag.
 
#30,366
houseof999 said:
Is this bag fake?.. please confirm. I don't have any regular dinky to compare.

Item: Coach cornflower dinky
Link: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/253741731819

Seller: philosopher-queen2012

Comment: the hardware: the wrong orientation of the kisslock. The kisslock hardware.. isn't it always wrapped in brown color leather? The Creed patch.. I have never seen it on the kisslock pocket leather itself! The hardware also looks unusually shiny.
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I can't comment on authenticity (per se) but there's no way I'd recommend anyone buy that bag if the pictures in the listing are all they're willing to offer.

There are too many Dinky bags with the same "DK-20215" non-serial number on the creed, some of which might be the same style and others are not. No matter the pattern, multiple styles have that number.

Sellers need to show the white label from inside the pocket both if they want to prove authenticity, fight a potential dispute or want their bags authenticated!
 
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JLP123 said:
Hi y'all, went thrifting with fellow tpf Coachie SaraTHW and found a couple bags(one with a glued in serial that we're excited about but can't really identify) Any help authenticating as well as any clues to the red bag would be greatly appreciated

There are six bags so I've attached a link with the pictures

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D3oJKzu9F-_1fL8wTF7M39dulJGEbyhE?usp=sharing

Carson
No. 1602-342
11x6x3.5
Strap 47-48

Casino(missing strap)
No. G5D-9924
8x5x2

Red Basic Bag?(looks like a basic bag with the zipper pull)
No. 287-6939
11x6.5ishx2
Doubled over detachable strap

Regina
No. C4T-9870
8 x 6.5/7 x 3.5

Station
No. 0672-202
9x10.5
Long strap about 45

Stewardess
10x11x4
adjustable strap hard to measure about 16ish drop at longest
Very faded creed on bag in picture but reads
No. 984-3228
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whateve said:
I have doubts about the Regina. The rest look authentic. The red one is a basic bag.
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I agree, the "Regina" is fake. Not only was "T" not a valid handbag plant code for ANY US plant (it was only used by Costa Rica and only in 1999), but the style number belongs to a Court Bag, not a Regina.
 
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#30,368
JLP123 said:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D3oJKzu9F-_1fL8wTF7M39dulJGEbyhE?usp=sharing


Regina
No. C4T-9870
8 x 6.5/7 x 3.5
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whateve said:
I have doubts about the Regina. The rest look authentic. The red one is a basic bag.
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If having doubts means you aren't sure, did you notice that the creed for the "Regina" has a Court bag style number?

And additionally, I've seen other C4T creeds and don't recall any ever being authentic.

ETA: Oops, I should have refreshed the page. Hyacinth beat me to the punch!
 
#30,372
JLP123 said:
Well, I'm embarrassed I didn't look closely at the Regina style number as that was one of my picks along with the Casino, but thank you whateve, BeenBurned, and Hyacinth for your help! I appreciate it. SaraTHW knows how easy it is for me to get caught up in a sales rush when I've had my heart set on a style.
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Are you aware that it's illegal for thrift stores to sell fakes? Thrift stores, yard sales, estate sales, consignment stores, Craigslist, ebay, etc. - and every other possible venue is required to obey the law when it comes to selling items. EVERY item is required to be authentic and if they don't know, they can't disclaim knowledge or tell you they "aren't selling as authentic."

If I'd bought the fake, I'd take it back and either get a refund or exchange it for something else. You shouldn't write it off as a loss.

JMHO.
 
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#30,374
Texas KP said:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-CO...bo-ERGO-Purse-Shoulder-Bag-9020-/362377254741

Daughters impulse buy...but here is the Creed photo... style is 9020. The M and the Z plant were flags, but after reading the posts from February 2016 I’m not sure. Help? Thanks as always!
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It is fake. There is a frame around the number that shouldn't be there. The Z plant code was used for the Dominican Republic, not the US. The font is too thick. The zipper pull looks wrong. Insist the seller pays for shipping both ways when you return.
 
#30,375
whateve said:
It is fake. There is a frame around the number that shouldn't be there. The Z plant code was used for the Dominican Republic, not the US. The font is too thick. The zipper pull looks wrong. Insist the seller pays for shipping both ways when you return.
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Thank you yet again, Hyacinth! (I did look at the info on the seller..station_85.....boy is he/she bad news!) Tried to tell my girl but she loved the bag and bought it, just hoping....
 
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