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:
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    Listing number:
    Seller and site where listed
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  • FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Where purchased or how obtained
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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.
Thank you and be safe!
 
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#40,952
Princess Caroline said:
If someone could please have a look at these sad guys, I would appreciate it. If they are real I might try to rehab. Sorry for the bad photos. Thanks!

Item: ?
Seller: local thrift
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Item: ?
Seller local thrift
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1- genuine Legacy West Hobo from 2002

#2 - genuine Stewardess, style 9525, early to mid-1980s
 
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#40,960
cacioepepe said:
Hi! I'd like to double check the authenticity of this bag.

Item: Dinky (?)
Listing number: 163865985564
Seller: hipstertrashvintage
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/163865985564
Comments: Here's a clearer photo of the creed the seller sent me:
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Genuine, but not from the 1990s. I believe it's a late 1970s Dinky but there are a lot of similarities between the Dinkys and Pennys from that time, someone at the Vintage Coach Chat thread in the main Coach forum could probably identify it more accurately. Or if Whateve is around she can narrow it down. The strap attachment holes through the leather itself is a feature only found in early versions. (It also makes it harder to find a replacement strap if you need one because the standard dog-leash clips weren't a good fit for those holes).
 
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-VINT...LE-BAG-SILVER-HARDWARE-DET-STRAP/323925460637

Oh my. Look at that creed. (Let alone the stamp on the flap.)
Item 323925460637 on ebay.
Seller is connieyoder0423
Supposed to be a Willis, I think ... but ...

(I apologize if I shouldn't be posting it here, but thought it should come to the experts' attention. Daughter is browsing red crossbodies, and this popped up. Even she kind of stumbled back.)
 
#40,963
Hyacinth said:
Genuine, but not from the 1990s. I believe it's a late 1970s Dinky but there are a lot of similarities between the Dinkys and Pennys from that time, someone at the Vintage Coach Chat thread in the main Coach forum could probably identify it more accurately. Or if Whateve is around she can narrow it down. The strap attachment holes through the leather itself is a feature only found in early versions. (It also makes it harder to find a replacement strap if you need one because the standard dog-leash clips weren't a good fit for those holes).
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Thank you, Hyacinth!
 
#40,964
momtok said:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-VINT...LE-BAG-SILVER-HARDWARE-DET-STRAP/323925460637

Oh my. Look at that creed. (Let alone the stamp on the flap.)
Item 323925460637 on ebay.
Seller is connieyoder0423
Supposed to be a Willis, I think ... but ...

(I apologize if I shouldn't be posting it here, but thought it should come to the experts' attention. Daughter is browsing red crossbodies, and this popped up. Even she kind of stumbled back.)
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YIKES! Definitely fake! And unlike Elizabeth's reaction to Hyacinth's Candlelight Supper table settings, in this case "stumbling back" is NOT a Good Thing!

Off to report...

ETA - And I just have to add a few thumbnails, something this awful deserves to be saved for posterity.

Do NOT buy from seller " connieyoder0423 "
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Doncha just love the handy-dandy (1990s) cellphone holder and the 2-tone red combination?
 
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#40,965
momtok said:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-VINT...LE-BAG-SILVER-HARDWARE-DET-STRAP/323925460637

Oh my. Look at that creed. (Let alone the stamp on the flap.)
Item 323925460637 on ebay.
Seller is connieyoder0423
Supposed to be a Willis, I think ... but ...

(I apologize if I shouldn't be posting it here, but thought it should come to the experts' attention. Daughter is browsing red crossbodies, and this popped up. Even she kind of stumbled back.)
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It's fake. The first picture was enough to know but if you kept scrolling, the picture of the creed with 4C-9911 as the serial number is another giveaway.

That serial number is on a lot of fakes and is on Hyacinth's serial number list.
 
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