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

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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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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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#38,867
Hi all I purchased this one at a goodwill and it was pretty beat up but wanted ro give a go at rehabing it. Now I have my doubts of its authenticity. Could you help. Measures appx 7.5H x 10.5 W depth 3" snd strap drop 22"

Creed is 997-8862

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Kitana0808 said:
No outside slip pocket..just one under the flap. I have doubts because I thought it was a city bag but the creed does npt match
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Also the coach hangtag...it looks like it split in half. Didnt come with the other half. Leather seels good
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If you mean that the serial number doesn't match, it's not supposed to. Coach has made dozens of changes over the years to the stamps in their bags, Don't ever try to authenticate one by comparing it to a totally different bag.This one isn't even a City Bag.

Older hangtags were made of two halves glued together, and they sometimes came apart.

And please read and save the links to the thread in this forum about the Salearea Guides. Read the guides carefully and go back every few months and read them again, especially the ones about authenticity guides, creeds and serial numbers..
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/

The purse is a genuine Convertible Clutch style 9635 made in the late 1980s.
 
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#38,875
Hi all, I have this Etsy curiosity I wanted to ask you about. I've not seen its likeness before so it caught my eye.

Item: Coach duffel of some sort
Seller: VintageValuesByGina
Link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/700748272/beautiful-coach-handbag?ref=hp_rf-4
Comments: She mentions serial # G1B 9766 and provided the below photo to me when I asked for a photo of the inside. I'm not sure why she didn't add it to the listing, but I digress. I also asked her about the missing hardware on the front of the turnlock and she said she didn't realize it was missing (!?) and does not have it.

Thank you all -- would love to hear your thoughts. I have a Metro Business Satchel (I think?) that has the same sort of piping problem and have no idea how to fix it so that plus the turnlock hardware issue is a little eyebrow-raising for me on this one. :/

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vickenator said:
Hi all, I have this Etsy curiosity I wanted to ask you about. I've not seen its likeness before so it caught my eye.

Item: Coach duffel of some sort
Seller: VintageValuesByGina
Link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/700748272/beautiful-coach-handbag?ref=hp_rf-4
Comments: She mentions serial # G1B 9766 and provided the below photo to me when I asked for a photo of the inside. I'm not sure why she didn't add it to the listing, but I digress. I also asked her about the missing hardware on the front of the turnlock and she said she didn't realize it was missing (!?) and does not have it.

Thank you all -- would love to hear your thoughts. I have a Metro Business Satchel (I think?) that has the same sort of piping problem and have no idea how to fix it so that plus the turnlock hardware issue is a little eyebrow-raising for me on this one. :/

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If VintageValuesByGina is going to sell Coach, she needs to educate herself!

I can't read the creed well enough to authenticate it but so far, the bag looks okay. Ask the seller to pull out the lining and get a clear and legible picture of the creed, preferably right side up!

But if the number she stated is correct, the bag isn't from the 70s as VintageValuesByGina states but from 2001 -- not even old enough to legally be on Etsy!

There are sellers (silver-coach is one) who sell hardware so you can get replacement turnlock hardware.
 
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BeenBurned said:
If VintageValuesByGina is going to sell Coach, she needs to educate herself!

I can't read the creed well enough to authenticate it but so far, the bag looks okay. Ask the seller to pull out the lining and get a clear and legible picture of the creed, preferably right side up!

But if the number she stated is correct, the bag isn't from the 70s as VintageValuesByGina states but from 2001 -- not even old enough to legally be on Etsy!

There are sellers (silver-coach is one) who sell hardware so you can get replacement turnlock hardware.
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Wow, so you have to have bags of a certain age to be able to sell them on Etsy? I had no idea about this restriction.

I'll bug her again for a clearer photo because I agree that one is awful. And I cannot understand how she never noticed the hardware was missing. The bag clearly shows signs of significant wear. Perhaps she's selling it on behalf of someone else.

Thank you @BeenBurned !
 
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