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:
  Item:
  Listing number:
  Seller and site where listed
  Link:
  Comments:
  
  
• FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED ONLINE:
  Item:
  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!

 

[studentesque]

It's fine.

Great! Thanks!

 

[Catbird9]

Please authenticate if possible:
Seller: maco637
Item #263857712226
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-Leat...k-Blue-Flap-Zip-Up-Vintage-1-DAY/263857712226
Comment: incomplete creed photo, but Leatherware cartouche, "scars, scratches" wording and zipper pulls are wrong I think.

 

[angelacolumbia]

Please help authenticate and identify this Embassy Briefcase? I purchased at a Goodwill store.

Name: Embassy Briefcase? Made in United States creed 0661-905. No shoulder strap or hardware, plain on the sides.

Pictures I took:

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[angelacolumbia]

The last pic I tried adding doesn’t seem to show. This is side of bag.

 

[whateve]

Please authenticate if possible:
Seller: maco637
Item #263857712226
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-Leat...k-Blue-Flap-Zip-Up-Vintage-1-DAY/263857712226
Comment: incomplete creed photo, but Leatherware cartouche, "scars, scratches" wording and zipper pulls are wrong I think.

yep, it's fake. I bet the seller is using a one day listing to try to get it sold before it gets reported.

 

[whateve]

Please help authenticate and identify this Embassy Briefcase? I purchased at a Goodwill store.

Name: Embassy Briefcase? Made in United States creed 0661-905. No shoulder strap or hardware, plain on the sides.

Pictures I took:
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The last pic I tried adding doesn’t seem to show. This is side of bag.

It's fine.

 

[angelacolumbia]

Thank you!

 

[Catbird9]

yep, it's fake. I bet the seller is using a one day listing to try to get it sold before it gets reported.

I had the same thought!

 

[Hyacinth]

Please authenticate if possible:
Seller: maco637
Item #263857712226
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-Leat...k-Blue-Flap-Zip-Up-Vintage-1-DAY/263857712226
Comment: incomplete creed photo, but Leatherware cartouche, "scars, scratches" wording and zipper pulls are wrong I think.

Yep, real Coaches never used those metal zipper pull rings with the extra small ring at the top until some time around 2009 when they started making something similar for the Poppy and maybe Op Art lines.

Here are thumbnails of this fake pull from MACO637 plus a few more found in older classic and vintage styles:

 

[Catbird9]

Yep, real Coaches never used those metal zipper pull rings with the extra small ring at the top until some time around 2009 when they started making something similar for the Poppy and maybe Op Art lines.

Here are thumbnails of this fake pull from MACO637 plus a few more found in older classic and vintage styles:

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Thanks for the extra info and pics, Hyacinth!

 

[abmab]

Just bought him! Let me know if you need anything else to authenticate him. Thank you I had a hard time taking a picture of the creed but that's the entire # (L5C-9977).


It's the same as this one, I believe https://www.ebth.com/items/4162990-black-leather-coach-manor-handbag

 

[whateve]

Just bought him! Let me know if you need anything else to authenticate him. Thank you I had a hard time taking a picture of the creed but that's the entire # (L5C-9977).
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It's the same as this one, I believe https://www.ebth.com/items/4162990-black-leather-coach-manor-handbag

It's authentic. We don't need links to items that aren't your bag. If you purchased this online, we need the seller's info and a link, if there is one. If you bought it at a thrift store or garage sale or were given it, then pictures are all we need.

 

[abmab]

It's authentic. We don't need links to items that aren't your bag. If you purchased this online, we need the seller's info and a link, if there is one. If you bought it at a thrift store or garage sale or were given it, then pictures are all we need.

Gotcha! I got it at an estate sale so the only pictures I had were the iffy ones I took. Thanks!

 

[BeenBurned]

Please authenticate if possible:
Seller: maco637
Item #263857712226
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-Leat...k-Blue-Flap-Zip-Up-Vintage-1-DAY/263857712226
Comment: incomplete creed photo, but Leatherware cartouche, "scars, scratches" wording and zipper pulls are wrong I think.[/

yep, it's fake. I bet the seller is using a one day listing to try to get it sold before it gets reported.

I had the same thought!

And look how successful she was! NOT!

In the past, sellers couldn't do 1-day listings for this type of item for just that reason. I wonder how she managed to do it. (And her authentic Coach is also a 1-day listing.)

 

[Hyacinth]

And look how successful she was! NOT!

In the past, sellers couldn't do 1-day listings for this type of item for just that reason. I wonder how she managed to do it. (And her authentic Coach is also a 1-day listing.)

Apparently not any more. In their eternal search for a bigger bottom line and even bigger golden parachutes for their increasingly incompetant Executives, they apparently let that restriction fall off the radar. Now all a seller apparently has to do is have a Feedback of 10 or more.
https://www.ebay.com/help/selling/listings/selecting-listing-duration?id=4652

Just another addition in the 2958 (and counting) reasons I have for deciding to NEVER sell on Ebay, and why my buying has dropped to single digits per annum.