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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Hyacinth said:
If you're referring to the "Saddle Bag"/ fake Patricia's Legacy, I already explained that it was Fake here:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...ost-for-format.889527/page-2635#post-33254280

If you haven't already bought it there's no reason to go back to the store.
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Your knowledge is amazing. I read these posts everyday but I just don’t have the memory anymore . Thank you from saving my wallet, again!

Edit: I just saw your post with the full explanation...I didn’t get through the whole thread when I responded. It’s 6:45 am here and I haven’t had my coffee yet,lol. Take care Hyacinth!!
 
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StrictTime said:
Please authenticate. Thank you!
Item: Vintage Coach 9980 Leather Purse
Seller: Goodwill.com
Listing #: 72952502
Link: https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/72952502
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Like so many others of various shopgoodwill listings, this one is fake too even though the listing states, "Goodwill of Central & Southern Indiana states that this item has been posted in accordance with shopgoodwill.com's policy prohibiting the sale of counterfeit items. If you have any questions or concerns about the authenticity of this item please contact seller directly prior to bidding."

If you have an account and contact them, feel free to refer them here! (I'm even willing to respond if shopgoodwill were verify authenticity of their items prior to listing them! In some of the other brands, authenticators won't help sellers. I think I can speak for the other Coach authenticators when I say that if the sellers want to do the right thing, we're willing to help as long as they aren't posting their own listings.)

Some shopgoodwill listings show Entrupy authentications. I wouldn't trust those listings either because Entrupy has been wrong on Coach many times.
 
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StrictTime said:
Please authenticate. Thank you!
Item: Vintage Coach 9980 Leather Purse
Seller: Goodwill.com
Listing #: 72952502
Link: https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/72952502
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In case you report it to Goodwill and they ask WHY you think it's counterfeit-

The Coach logo at the top of the creed stamp is wrong, the border around it is much too thick and the Coach logo too big for the frame or cartouche.

The gaps between many of the words in the creed are much too wide

Last but certainly not least, the date code in the serial number "D4" means the bag would have been made in April 1994. But this Taft style wasn't even introduced by Coach until the Fall 1995 catalog, a full 18 months after the date in the fake serial number.

EDITED to correct date error
 
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Hyacinth said:
In case you report it to Goodwill and they ask WHY you think it's counterfeit-

The serial number isn't valid for several reasons. The plant code "G" is too early for any bag made in 1994 which is the year code, and the first examples of a G code are from 1996 and only found in luggage. The same plant would not have been making handbags.

The Coach logo at the top of the creed stamp is wrong, the border around it is much too thick and the Coach logo too big for the frame or cartouche.

The gaps between many of the words in the creed are much too wide

Last but certainly not least, the date code in the serial number "D4" means the bag would have been made in April 1994. But this Taft style wasn't even introduced by Coach until the Fall 1995 catalog, a full 18 months after the date in the fake serial number.
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@Hyacinth, check your PMs.
 
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Ooooweee I think I actually have made good use of the Salearea guides you posted recently about creeds -- but want to check with you guys before reporting this as fake. Am I right? The creed is what tipped me off, but the fabric lining and odd-looking strap are also red flags (no pun intended) in my book.

listing: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Co...lock-Shoulder-Crossbody-Bag-9173/254285201873

seller: designerfindsonadime
 
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vickenator said:
It's all thanks to you ladies! :biggrin:
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I have fun clicking all the links to the bags posted in here and trying to decide if a bag is authentic lol Then the authenticators roll through ... “Bag is fake at first glance but it’s authentic by my files, you can tell by the grommet that is a quarter inch too low. This only occurred on every other Wednesday for 2 months in 1996 in the Italian plant. The craftsman's name was Lorenzo, he enjoyed espresso. God rest his soul.”

Ohhhhh I see! Lol I love all the details in here.
 
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Syren said:
I have fun clicking all the links to the bags posted in here and trying to decide if a bag is authentic lol Then the authenticators roll through ... “Bag is fake at first glance but it’s authentic by my files, you can tell by the grommet that is a quarter inch too low. This only occurred on every other Wednesday for 2 months in 1996 in the Italian plant. The craftsman's name was Lorenzo, he enjoyed espresso. God rest his soul.”

Ohhhhh I see! Lol I love all the details in here.
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I love it! I feel like I'm apprenticing in here though it's one of those decades-long apprenticeships and... well, there's really no job at the end of it, only more purses. JUST WHAT I WANTED ANYWAY!
 
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Hi Again, Could you please authenticate this for me. I believe it is an authentic Murphy. Just want to be sure.
 

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