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
  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!

 

[ckneeleimaj]

Thanks for the help!!!

 

[Syren]

Hello! Hoping to have this bag authenticated before I pay. Thanks so much!

Item: Mini Daypack backpack red # 9960
Seller: aridel80
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Pr...k-Purse-9960-/312688508451?txnId=938205624021
Comments: Thanks!

 

[whateve]

Hello! Hoping to have this bag authenticated before I pay. Thanks so much!

Item: Mini Daypack backpack red # 9960
Seller: aridel80
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Pr...k-Purse-9960-/312688508451?txnId=938205624021
Comments: Thanks!

It's authentic.

 

[Syren]

It's authentic.

Thank you! My goodness you were fast lol

 

[Aku_no_Hana]

Good afternoon!
I am just curious about this little wristlet I found at work. I am not all that familiar with more recent Coach or with MFF. The little white tag was impossible to photograph but it says No. B1780 F86926
Thank you!

 

[BeenBurned]

Good afternoon!
I am just curious about this little wristlet I found at work. I am not all that familiar with more recent Coach or with MFF. The little white tag was impossible to photograph but it says No. B1780 F86926
Thank you!

It looks fine. It's a corner zip wristlet, made for the outlet stores.

 

[Aku_no_Hana]

It looks fine. It's a corner zip wristlet, made for the outlet stores.

Thanks so much!

 

[Deannem]

Please help authenticate my vintage Coach bucketbag.
Approx - 15x 13x 5 1/2
Creed 0598-399
I got it at a garage sale a few years ago.
Olive green and brown all leather

 

[Syren]

I bought this key fob a while back at a garage sale for $2. I looked back though pics then and it appeared authentic to me so I never posted it but I’d like to know for sure. I read a lot about the chain and split ring and this one appears to match the authentic versions. The made in China on the bottom is throwing me off? I did not know older items were made in China ... Thanks!

Item: City Key Fob #7105
Seller: Garage sale

 

[BeenBurned]

I bought this key fob a while back at a garage sale for $2. I looked back though pics then and it appeared authentic to me so I never posted it but I’d like to know for sure. I read a lot about the chain and split ring and this one appears to match the authentic versions. The made in China on the bottom is throwing me off? I did not know older items were made in China ... Thanks!

Item: City Key Fob #7105
Seller: Garage sale

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Nice find! It's authentic.

 

[Hyacinth]

Please help authenticate my vintage Coach bucketbag.
Approx - 15x 13x 5 1/2
Creed 0598-399
I got it at a garage sale a few years ago.
Olive green and brown all leather

It looks like a genuine Darcey Drawstring style number 4229 from the Sheridan line, made in the early 1990s, although the top to bottom measurement that Coach gives in their catalog is different. Coach lists the measurements as 9 1/2 inches long (side to side (probably measured at the top opening) by 12 inches high by 5 1/2 inches deep so if it's the same bag I'm not sure why there's such a difference in the height measurement. But that's the only style in my files that matches your photos. Click on the thumbnail below for the catalog page.

 

[Syren]

Nice find! It's authentic.

Yipppeee! Thanks! This lil guy got me interested in the older red items and now I have a mini red daypack on its way. Can’t wait to use them together.

 

[Pamikins87]

I am looking for information on what I believe to be an authentic vintage coach bag. On the 5th number "the 1" it is stamped a little off as well does anyone know what that means, and how I would price this bag?

 

[BeenBurned]

I am looking for information on what I believe to be an authentic vintage coach bag. On the 5th number "the 1" it is stamped a little off as well does anyone know what that means, and how I would price this bag?View attachment 4490073 View attachment 4490074 View attachment 4490073 View attachment 4490074

It's an authentic Basic bag, also called a zippered clutch. The style number is 9455.

The older bags were hand stamped with a stamper on which the numbers were turned by hand. If the number wasn't perfectly centered, the alignment could be off and you'd see the over and understamps of the numbers above and below.

 

[Ammrx]

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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This is the response from goodwill. I really can’t do much more.


The replacement bag is an authentic Coach. Additionally, upon further review of the first bag, it appears that, too, is a real coach. These are both vintage bags for which using current creeds and identification methods don't necessarily apply. While we appreciate your research, the particular site your reference is often inaccurate. I will have the shipping department forward a return label to you.