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

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  • 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.
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  • 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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DrC1984 said:
Hi! I have a few vintage coach bags that I didn’t even think to question about authenticity, but it was brought to my attention I had one that’s not, so I wanted to check the others. This is two of them, the red is said not to be authentic View attachment 4547125View attachment 4547126View attachment 4547127View attachment 4547128View attachment 4547129View attachment 4547130View attachment 4547131View attachment 4547132View attachment 4547133
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The brown one is a genuine Soho Buckle Bag made in 1996.

The red one is fake, "A8M-4896" has been on the Daria48 Fake Coach Numbers list for 7 or 8 years .
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/page-3#post-33239562

"A8M-4896 - ALWAYS fake and probably wouldn't have been used in a purse"
Additional research found that style number 4896 belonged ONLY to a Swing Wallet made in or around 1996:
The wording of the creed is also wrong for any item with a 1998 year code like this fake has.

4896_Signature Swing Wallet - 1996Preview-a.jpg


Here are thumbnails of a fake Station Bag with the same always-fake serial number, click on the thumbnails to enlarge:
4896_A8M_FAKE Station Bag-b.jpg
A8M-4896_FAKE-a.jpg

It's hard to see it clearly in the photos of your red one, but it seems to have the same incorrect hyphen or half hyphen between the words "is" and "made" in the first line of the creed, and all the creed and serial number details are the same.
 
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