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!

 

[BeenBurned]

May I please request an authentication of this BEAN BAG (according to the creed). I think this is dud #2! It measures approximately 9L x 2W x 9H. This bag looks and feels pretty convincing but the creed says it's a bean bag. It's not a bean bag. Thank you!!!

That one is a genuine Station bag with a bean bag creed.

 

[Morgan_Bellini]

Thanks for sharing this story and your wonderful bags with us. I am sure that the woman who owned them would be so pleased that you have them now and will bring her treasures back to the beauties they were when she first bought them!

I like to think that she would be happy that these bags went to a good home. Who knows, in 40 years someone else will hopefully be sorting through my stash of 500 Coach bags after I die.

 

[Morgan_Bellini]

That one is a genuine Station bag with a bean bag creed.

Interesting! Thank you! I thought for sure I had another dud.

 

[Minchanka]

Thank you! This has been a crazy ride, for sure. I am stunned that so many are genuine. I wish I could have met the lady who shopped for these bags. Her nephew hosted the estate sale after she passed away and he said she had over 500 Coach bags stored all over her house. These are not moldy forgotten bags, these were cared for at some point. I got the leftovers that didn't sell at the estate sale and I think I got a pretty good deal! If the last few turn out to be genuine then I'll have paid $7.89 for each bag. Not too shabby!

If that’s the leftovers, I can’t imagine what the estate sale must have been!

 

[Minchanka]

Both bags are authentic.

Interesting, so the early design of the City bag had a removable strap? I need to find one of those.

 

[Morgan_Bellini]

Interesting, so the early design of the City bag had a removable strap? I need to find one of those.

And three different zipper pulls. I know that doesn't determine authenticity but I still find it very interesting.

 

[Morgan_Bellini]

If that’s the leftovers, I can’t imagine what the estate sale must have been!

Oh, I know! I would have LOVED to have been at that sale!

 

[whateve]

May I please request an authentication of this City bag I bought through Craigslist? It measures approximately 11.5L x 3W x 8H. This bag looks almost demin blue, does that sound right? It's really pretty. Thank you!!

May I please request an authentication of this City bag I bought through Craigslist? It measures approximately 11L x 3W x 8H when squished flat. Thank you!!

May I please request an authentication of this City bag I bought through Craigslist? It measures approximately 11L x 3W x 7H. This one is definitely a tad smaller than the two City bags I just posted. Maybe it just squished differently in storage? I tried to stretch it out a little for accuracy. Thank you!

Authentic.

Interesting, so the early design of the City bag had a removable strap? I need to find one of those.

And three different zipper pulls. I know that doesn't determine authenticity but I still find it very interesting.

None of these are city bags. They are convertible clutches.

 

[Morgan_Bellini]

Family photo! Final verdict: 19 authentic, 1 obligatory Willis dud, and 2 unbranded. (Photo only includes authentic Coach bags)

 

[Morgan_Bellini]

Authentic.



None of these are city bags. They are convertible clutches.

Oops, sorry! Those are HUGE clutches. Thank you!!

 

[Princess Caroline]

Family photo! Final verdict: 19 authentic, 1 obligatory Willis dud, and 2 unbranded. (Photo only includes authentic Coach bags)

Wow. I feel like it's the end of a saga. Lord of the Bags: Return of the Bean Bag? Wait, Frodo BAGgins...hmmmm...I'm starting to wonder here..."Precious!"

Congratulations, Morgan, you surely have the haul of the year for this amazing 'get'. It's like an instant collection!

 

[Morgan_Bellini]

Wow. I feel like it's the end of a saga. Lord of the Bags: Return of the Bean Bag? Wait, Frodo BAGgins...hmmmm...I'm starting to wonder here..."Precious!"

Congratulations, Morgan, you surely have the haul of the year for this amazing 'get'. It's like an instant collection!

Ha ha ha ha!!!! My precioussss! No kidding, it took 3 days to post them all for authentication. Wow, what a thrill!

 

[Lake Effect]

Family photo! Final verdict: 19 authentic, 1 obligatory Willis dud, and 2 unbranded. (Photo only includes authentic Coach bags)

Wow. I feel like it's the end of a saga. Lord of the Bags: Return of the Bean Bag? Wait, Frodo BAGgins...hmmmm...I'm starting to wonder here..."Precious!"

Congratulations, Morgan, you surely have the haul of the year for this amazing 'get'. It's like an instant collection!

Oh good, I just logged on.What did I miss? Let me get caught up on tonight. This is better then Amazon Prime.
Yes, Congrats Morgan! I thought I died and went to heaven when I scored 6 Coach bags (and a VB) from a flea market contact. You got me beat but good.

 

[Lake Effect]

The brand of zipper in a Coach can NEVER prove that it's authentic. Please read the Salearea Coach Guide that explains why, and never use a zipper as proof of ANYTHING. I sugest reading all six of the Guides, but at least read this one:

https://www.forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/page-2#post-32253103

The Guides start here:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/#post-32252957

And please post a photo of the entire bag top to bottom including the strap and handle if any, and the back of the bag as required if you want to know the style name.

Thought maybe you might be calling out today after your marathon AT!

 

[Lake Effect]

That one is a genuine Station bag with a bean bag creed.

Cool! Now I have a reason to look for a Station Bag!