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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acwyane said:
Hello, BeenBurned. Thanks for your advice and explanation. Yeap due to first timer we really just want to make sure.. as I did check online on how to spot fake coach handbags, I found out that most bag’s serial on the creed usually doesn’t seems as “static” or I should say the font style are different, that’s why I felt hesitate and they also said that the horizontal line below “o” in the “No”, should be not as aligned with the bottom of the N.. something like that. Anyway, I believe your authenticating! Thanks! Probably the last thing to feel sad about is the strap scratch
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Unfortunately the information you read is NOT CORRECT. There are no one-size-fits-all rules about details of creeds and serial numbers because every plant had their own individual stamps and almost all of them were different. I have photos of perfectly genuine creeds and serials in my files that break both those so called "rules" and probably photos of exceptions to every other rule you've read online. Please DON'T go to online "authenticity guides" for correct information!

Read the Signature in purple under every one of my posts. Then go to this lnk and read the Salearea Guides that I researched and wrote back in 2011-12 for Ebay seller Salearea and that were just updated last year. Pay very special attention to the ones on Authenticity Guides Facts and Myths and on the YKK Zipper myth. The Salearea Guides are ACCURATE and the info in them checked and rechecked by me, not just Copied & Pasted from other guides on the internet.
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/

You can ONLY compare creed and serial details with a bag of the same style nade in the same plant, month and year. And even then the stamps could be changed or updated by the plant or the factory. What you read is unfortunately VERY bad information, that's why that sort of detailed analysis should be left to the experts who have a library of photos for comparison.

Here's just one example. You said
"they also said that the horizontal line below “o” in the “No”, should be not as aligned with the bottom of the N.. something like that"
So according to what that "guide" said, this serial number with the underline on the same level as the bottom of the "N" must be fake?
1994_D-B4D-9922-Leatherware-b .jpg

But it's NOT fake.

And neither is this, from a different plant, same year:
1994_E-plant-Italy_M4E-4933-a.jpg

or this one, that doesn't have an underline at all:
1994_F-plant-outlet_H4F-5358_Hamilton Portfolio-a.jpg

or this one, with several different fonts and sizes in the serial digits
1994_G-plant-4082_Soho Bag-sm-a.jpg

and from early 1995 and a different plant than any of the previous creeds:
1995_B-plant_H5B-4944-a.jpg

Which of those so-called rules in the guides you found cover ALL of these genuine Coaches? And I could probably post a hundred more, all of them different and all of them genuine.

DON'T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU SEE ON THE INTERNET.
 
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Hyacinth said:
Unfortunately the information you read is NOT CORRECT. There are no one-size-fits-all rules about details of creeds and serial numbers because every plant had their own individual stamps and almost all of them were different. I have photos of perfectly genuine creeds and serials in my files that break both those so called "rules" and probably photos of exceptions to every other rule you've read online. Please DON'T go to online "authenticity guides for correct information!

Read the Signature in purple under every one of my posts. Then go to this lnk and read the Salearea Guides that I researched and wrote back in 2011-12 for Ebay seller Salearea and that were just updated last year. Pay very special attention to the ones on Authenticity Guides Facts and Myths and on the YKK Zipper myth. The Salearea Guides are ACCURATE and the info in them checked and rechecked by me, not just Copied & Pasted from other guides on the internet.
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/

You can ONLY compare creed and serial details with a bag of the same style nade in the same plant, month and year. And even then the stamps could be changed or updated by the plant or the factory. What you read is unfortunately VERY bad information, that's why that sort of detailed analysis should be left to the experts who have a library of photos for comparison.
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Wow such detailed explanation! Thank you so much! I will read them all!
I’m really glad that I didn’t get a fake one and able to get an authentic check at the right place!
 
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acwyane said:
Wow such detailed explanation! Thank you so much! I will read them all!
I’m really glad that I didn’t get a fake one and able to get an authentic check at the right place!
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Please check out the photos I just posted, and like I said, that's just a small sample of WHY those people who "wrote" (i.e. "copied and pasted") those useless and dangerous so-called guides should be hanged, drawn and quartered.

Just one more example, a travel bag, still within the same 18-month period as the other photos, and still genuine:
1995_P-plant-US_J5P-0565-tan-a.jpg
 
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#40,595
TrishaT said:
Hi authenticators! I just purchased a bag and would love insight regarding it's authenticity.
Item: Coach Willow Floral Nomad Hobo - Grey Birch 55543
Listing number:
Seller: jennieolive
Link: https://poshmark.com/listing/Coach-Willow-Floral-Nomad-Hobo-5c9657eb3e0caa6457e4e995
Comments:
I believe I just saw where authenticators don't usually like to authenticate items from Poshmark. I did not realize this so my apologies if this is not allowed.
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13 1/2" (L) x 12" (H) x 3 3/4" (W)
 
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Good afternoon, if someone has a moment to take a look at these two duffles, I'd appreciate it very much!

It's a local sale, so no link.
 

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Hi! Can you please authenticate? Thx!
Item: city bag
Seller: Valley Thrift Store
 

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