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.
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Chevee02 said:
First off, thank you SO much for your reply and the info. I've read about 3 of those guides! Thank you! I wasn't sure how many pics to include because I just wanted to make sure I got everything yall would need to authenticate. Lol haha but thank you so much because posting more pics will be so much easier now. Okay, so I measured this bag and I'm not sure if I did it right because there are SO many different guides on how to measure bags online. I measured and got:

Height: 6 in. Length: 8in. Depth: 3in.

You said it would have been made in 1995. That makes sense because my mom said she got it when I was little and I was born in 1991. (I'm getting old. Lol) Based off the measurements, would you say it's real? And the number being stamped wrong. That's crazy. But I did read that Coaches DO sometimes have small mistakes like that. I will post some of the other bags as well because you're right, self aunthenticating could be problematic because it seems like you never know. Once again, thank you for the welcome!!
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It's definitely real. On this forum we NEVER identify fakes with any Coach names since fakes don't deserve names. And I would never get that long-winded about fakes unless I was trying to show someone why knowingly buying and selling them is so disgusting.

As for measurements, Coach apparently had their own measurement standards but haven't shared them with the public for a long time. As long as you're within about an inch of the catalog measurements and are measuring seam to seam you're usually ok. There are 2 other similar styles to yours but they're both much bigger so I'm sure yours is a Gracie. Back then the Gracie's original retail price of $242 for a very small bag was at the top end of Coach's price scale, equivalent to about $379 today.

As for the number being wrong - hey, it happened. There were some interesting mistakes made by some plants back then, especially the Italian one (and as someone who's both owned and sold Italian cars, crazy mistakes by Italian plants weren't limited just to handbags). But some of those so-called "authenticity guide" writers will jump up and down screaming that if the style number is wrong to purse MUST be fake, just one of the countless mistakes we've found in those guides. People make mistakes. We can look at the rest of the bag and make sure all the other details are correct for that style and year.
 
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Hyacinth said:
It's definitely real. On this forum we NEVER identify fakes with any Coach names since fakes don't deserve names. And I would never get that long-winded about fakes unless I was trying to show someone why knowingly buying and selling them is so disgusting.

As for measurements, Coach apparently had their own measurement standards but haven't shared them with the public for a long time. As long as you're within about an inch of the catalog measurements and are measuring seam to seam you're usually ok. There are 2 other similar styles to yours but they're both much bigger so I'm sure yours is a Gracie. Back then the Gracie's original retail price of $242 for a very small bag was at the top end of Coach's price scale, equivalent to about $379 today.
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😳 Are.you.serious.? That is crazy. This has been SITTING in my moms closet for YEARS. Thank you so much. You are a gem.
 
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