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!

 

[Hyacinth]

Thank you! Specially for the extra information about the time frame when it was discontinued. If I had time to read this whole thread again for those little valuable information I'd come up with a pop quiz for the collectors.

As long as it's an open book quiz, I accept.

 

[Narnanz]

It's a genuine Coach Legacy Small Hobo made in 2000.

ETA - It's the style at the upper right in this catalog photo. You'll probably have to click on the thumbnail several times to get the photo to open completely.

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Thank you so much..appreciate all you do for us.

 

[Ammrx]

Delete. Never mind
Tried to delete.

 

[BeenBurned]

Delete. Never mind
Tried to delete.

If it's listed somewhere, please post the link so we can report. It's fake.

 

[Ammrx]

It was at a salvation army I stopped at this morning on my way home from work. I determined it was fake on my own. Thanks to you guys for teaching me how to.

 

[Narnanz]

Hello again...please can I have this one looked at too...not sure if you are at all happy with looking at Etsy.
Item- Vintage Coach Willis Green
Link-
https://www.etsy.com/listing/690028...5130-green?ref=search_recently_viewed-3&frs=1
Seller- INDCLOSETRETRO
Comments- Am trying to look at different avenues of a finding a coach to try rehabbing. I dont have an ebay account and the postage is huge even if I get a bag relatively cheap...some times twice or three times the value of the bag.
Am still paying the same if I get from Etsy...but might be easier to buy. Would like to see what the guys think of this one on the rehab thread...might be too much for a novice. Need to make sure its ok before I ask.
Thank you.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello again...please can I have this one looked at too...not sure if you are at all happy with looking at Etsy.
Item- Vintage Coach Willis Green
Link-
https://www.etsy.com/listing/690028...5130-green?ref=search_recently_viewed-3&frs=1
Seller- INDCLOSETRETRO
Comments- Am trying to look at different avenues of a finding a coach to try rehabbing. I dont have an ebay account and the postage is huge even if I get a bag relatively cheap...some times twice or three times the value of the bag.
Am still paying the same if I get from Etsy...but might be easier to buy. Would like to see what the guys think of this one on the rehab thread...might be too much for a novice. Need to make sure its ok before I ask.
Thank you.

It's a genuine Station Bag made in 1994.

 

[Narnanz]

It's a genuine Station Bag made in 1994.

Thank you again for your time.

 

[RadhaDB]

Hello! I would appreciate any authentication help I may receive on these two second hand purchases. (Separated into two posts to meet photo requirements).

Small Red Turnlock
8in across
~7.5 inches top to bottom (kind of flattened)
Front to back ~3in
17in drop
One exterior pocket under flap in front
Creed on interior zip pocket
Coach Leatherware
Code 375 7474
Made in New York City, USA

 

[RadhaDB]

Hello! I would appreciate any authentication help I may receive on these two second hand purchases.
(This is the second bag)
Cream/Bone? Turn lock Bag
9.25 across
8in top to bottom
3in front to back
19in strap drop
Exterior pocket under flap on front
Pocket across the backyard
Interior zip pocket with creed
Creed D9C-9061

Thank you very much!

 

[vickenator]

It was at a salvation army I stopped at this morning on my way home from work. I determined it was fake on my own. Thanks to you guys for teaching me how to.

Isn't that an awesome feeling?

Technically I know we're supposed to notify management that the bag they're attempting to sell is counterfeit (and illegal to sell) but my gut instinct is that it would probably result in 1) them putting it right back on the shelf after I leave and 2) me being unwelcome at that particular thrift henceforth. :I

 

[BeenBurned]

Isn't that an awesome feeling?

Technically I know we're supposed to notify management that the bag they're attempting to sell is counterfeit (and illegal to sell) but my gut instinct is that it would probably result in 1) them putting it right back on the shelf after I leave and 2) me being unwelcome at that particular thrift henceforth. :I

I've found that notifying management in a thrift store is less than useless.

They react in one of several ways:

• claim to be a thrift and just reselling donations
• claim not to be selling as authentic (although I've seen fakes with pricetags ranging from $60 to $300!)
• Ask how you know it's fake, remove the item from the sales floor while you're in the store and promptly put it back after you leave

Most stores don't understand the law regarding the sales of fakes (at best) or they don't GAS (at worst).

 

[Hyacinth]

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(This is the second bag)
Cream/Bone? Turn lock Bag
9.25 across
8in top to bottom
3in front to back
19in strap drop
Exterior pocket under flap on front
Pocket across the backyard
Interior zip pocket with creed
Creed D9C-9061

Thank you very much!

Genuine Rambler's Legacy from 1999

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello! I would appreciate any authentication help I may receive on these two second hand purchases. (Separated into two posts to meet photo requirements).
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Small Red Turnlock
8in across
~7.5 inches top to bottom (kind of flattened)
Front to back ~3in
17in drop
One exterior pocket under flap in front
Creed on interior zip pocket
Coach Leatherware
Code 375 7474
Made in New York City, USA

Genuine, probably a Small Shoulder Bag style 9530 from the early 1980s. In the future, please try to post a better photo of the creed and serial number, we need to be able to actually see the details of the stamping and the fonts. Thanks!

 

[RadhaDB]

Genuine, probably a Small Shoulder Bag style 9530 from the early 1980s. In the future, please try to post a better photo of the creed and serial number, we need to be able to actually see the details of the stamping and the fonts. Thanks!

Thank you very much, Hyacinth! Yes I will do better next time. They arrived this evening and I was anxious to have them authenticated but needed better light and so used my flash. And the poor bag is just smooshed :/ I appreciate your help!