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

[Vlad]

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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!

 

[thecollector629]

Please confirm (or not) that the blue handbag shown in this listing is bogus.
THank you!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Coach-Pur...883?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2edf4575a3
seller: spongeboob29
auction #
201314366883

 

[Peachesmom75]

All are fine.

Thank you so much!

 

[Peachesmom75]

This is probably okay. It's a Park Violet. In the future, it would be helpful if you include a little of the lining in the creed picture so we can see the color. If you can get the pocket zipper pull in the same picture, again that would be helpful.

This is this color on the inside

 

[Hyacinth]

Please confirm (or not) that the blue handbag shown in this listing is bogus.
THank you!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Coach-Pur...883?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2edf4575a3
seller: spongeboob29
auction #
201314366883

Completely and utterly bogus - non-existant color that was NEVER used by Coach at any time in the 1990s, massively off-center creed stamp, wrong font and spacing in the serial number, fake buckles, incorrect double row of stitches above the inside pocket.

 

[Hyacinth]

I bought this at a thrift store today. I would like to know if it's authentic or not, as well as the name and year if it is. Thanks!

The length is 10.75, the height is 7 and the depth is 3.75. The strap drop is 21 inches at the longest setting.

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Genuine, looks like a City Bag from the early 1990s, style 9790

 

[Hyacinth]

authentic Taylor zip from 1994. I'm concerned about the strap. It doesn't look the right length from the side of the bag to the buckle. Compare it to the stock photo.

Hmmm..... That is a bit concerning.

I agree, the shorter end of the strap has been chopped at least 8 inches, maybe more. The seller is copying bits and pieces from another listing or listings so she probably copied the drop measurements from somewhere else. She can't seem to decide on the serial number prefix either.

I'd stay away from that one.

Check out the huge, non-matching stitches right above the squared D-ring attaching the strap to the bag. Looks like the entire short end of the strap was doubled up and sewn back together.

 

[Two.time.bags]

Item Vintage Coach handbag
Item no 261821758479
Seller dorannybalbuena87
Link http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-...479?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf5cafc0f
Comment this looks dodgy?

 

[Hyacinth]

Item Vintage Coach handbag
Item no 261821758479
Seller dorannybalbuena87
Link http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Vintage-...479?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cf5cafc0f
Comment this looks dodgy?

Definitely dodgy! The creed wording "variations in the grain" was only used after 1994, but by that time Coach had stopped using "Leatherware" in their creed logos. And that fake Stewardess ID pocket doesn't belong on ANY other style EXCEPT a Stewardess, which this definitely AIN'T. The shape of the male part of the turnlock is wrong, the top corners where the strap is mounted aren't right, there should NOT be a small single screw holding the turnlock together, the shape of the strap buckles is wrong, and there's a double border around the Coach logo above the creed.

No wonder the seller won;t show the serial number!

 

[uncertain]

Thanks in advance!

Item Name: Black Pebbled Borough Bag in Medium
Photos:

Sorry, I think I may have been skipped. Thanks

EDITED to attached the pictures

 

[lonesomeoctober]

Coach hang bags...

Apparel-inc

161647408148

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Hangb...148?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25a2efb414

Thank you!

 

[Two.time.bags]

Definitely dodgy! The creed wording "variations in the grain" was only used after 1994, but by that time Coach had stopped using "Leatherware" in their creed logos. And that fake Stewardess ID pocket doesn't belong on ANY other style EXCEPT a Stewardess, which this definitely AIN'T. The shape of the male part of the turnlock is wrong, the top corners where the strap is mounted aren't right, there should NOT be a small single screw holding the turnlock together, the shape of the strap buckles is wrong, and there's a double border around the Coach logo above the creed.

No wonder the seller won;t show the serial number!

Thanks Hyacinth. Will report.

 

[thecollector629]

Completely and utterly bogus - non-existant color that was NEVER used by Coach at any time in the 1990s, massively off-center creed stamp, wrong font and spacing in the serial number, fake buckles, incorrect double row of stitches above the inside pocket.

Thanks, I will report

 

[whateve]

Please confirm (or not) that the blue handbag shown in this listing is bogus.
THank you!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2-Coach-Pur...883?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2edf4575a3
seller: spongeboob29
auction #
201314366883

Completely and utterly bogus - non-existant color that was NEVER used by Coach at any time in the 1990s, massively off-center creed stamp, wrong font and spacing in the serial number, fake buckles, incorrect double row of stitches above the inside pocket.

I have that bag in periwinkle, which looks similar to a couple of the pictures, but I agree that one is fake. Another thing to notice is that there is no edge coating anywhere. In the 90s, Coach used matching coating on the edges.

 

[honkers]

Item: 9186
Seller: Barbiegyll
Auction #201312524187

Real?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/201312524187?_trksid=p2060353.m1431.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

 

[Hyacinth]

Coach hang bags...

Apparel-inc

161647408148

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Hangb...148?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item25a2efb414

Thank you!

The serial number fonts in the white Anderson Zip don't match the others I've found with the same prefix. That doesn't necessarily prove that it's not genuine, just that it can't be authenticated.