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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Ammrx said:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sgwcsattachments/images/117/7-12-2019/44875731255857Na35.JPG

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sgwcsattachments/images/117/7-12-2019/27388721255857Na35.JPG

Can this be authenticated from these pictures. Goodwill is offering for a replacement for a fake they sent me. Would like to know if it is authentic before giving an answer. Thanks guys.
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THIS ONE IS FAKE TOO.

The serial number font is completely wrong for the year and plant, the creed stamping is sloppy and some letters are crooked, and the year code "4" stands for 1994 which is EIGHT YEARS BEFORE THAT STYLE WAS EVEN INTRODUCED.

Tell them you want a full refund, it's much safer. And if they claim to be authenticating their bags they'd better find a new authenticator, because the one(s) they're using wouldn't recognise a fake if it had the word on it in neon lettering.

What really p!sses me off is that within a month, both of those PsOS are going to be back up for sale.

Here's a copy of the Wayback Machine's scan of the catalog page, notice the description says it's a new style based on an older bag, and the date of the page scan at the top of the photo, 11 APRIL 02.

And here's the URL of the same page scanned a few months after that, in June 2002
http://web.archive.org/web/20020624...d=68&product_no=4142&show_bc=1&sort_by_price=

9186_SMALL DUFFLE SAC-WB apr11 2002-b.jpg
 
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Ammrx said:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/sgwcsattachments/images/117/7-12-2019/44875731255857Na35.JPG

https://s3.amazonaws.com/sgwcsattachments/images/117/7-12-2019/27388721255857Na35.JPG

Can this be authenticated from these pictures. Goodwill is offering for a replacement for a fake they sent me. Would like to know if it is authentic before giving an answer. Thanks guys.
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Hyacinth said:
THIS ONE IS FAKE TOO.
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Are you glad you asked first? Goodwill just doesn't learn!

If you have it in you and if you're communicating through email and have the ability to include links, send them Hyacinth's post.
 
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Hyacinth said:
THIS ONE IS FAKE TOO.

The serial number font is completely wrong for the year and plant, the creed stamping is sloppy and some letters are crooked, and the year code "4" stands for 1994 which is EIGHT YEARS BEFORE THAT STYLE WAS EVEN INTRODUCED.

Tell them you want a full refund, it's much safer. And if they claim to be authenticating their bags they'd better find a new authenticator, because the one(s) they're using wouldn't recognise a fake if it had the word on it in neon lettering.

What really p!sses me off is that within a month, both of those PsOS are going to be back up for sale.

Here's a copy of the Wayback Machine's scan of the catalog page, notice the description says it's a new style based on an older bag, and the date of the page scan at the top of the photo, 11 APRIL 02.

And here's the URL of the same page scanned a few months after that, in June 2002
http://web.archive.org/web/20020624...d=68&product_no=4142&show_bc=1&sort_by_price=

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Thank you for such a timely and complete response. I have opted for a refund. I also sent them a link to your response as was suggested by another poster. As I am writing this, I realize I should have asked your permission first. I apologize for not doing so.
 
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