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!

 

[whateve]

It does almost look like algae growing in there! Whatever it is, I wouldn't want to know!

I think it isn't anything. I think it is just a very bad quality picture. I've seen brown look green in bad pictures.

 

[Ebkbay]

If you're going to take chances like that, bags with a Costa Rica creed stamp are the safest bet.

That is great information, Hyacinth. Thank you.

 

[Jacynthe]

Thank you Whateve!
Ooops! Maybe I have confused the creeds of 2 bags. I am getting photos ready for a couple more requests. Hope my computer behaves next time!!

 

[Jacynthe]

Hello authenticators! Request to authenticate please. Thank you!
Item: grey leather flap. I don't know the name.
Seller: thrift store, now hoping to add it to my collection!
Link: n/a
Comments: width is about 7,5", height about 8", depth about 2". This bag was in such rough shape and now it has found a good home!! (It looked liked its sister which will be my next request)

 

[Jacynthe]

Hello authenticators! Request to authenticate please. Thank you!
Item: Court grey leather (correct me if I'm wrong)
Seller: thrift store, now hoping to add it to my collection!
Link: n/a
Comments: width is about 9,5", height 7", depth not quite 2,5", strap about 50"

 

[BeenBurned]

Hello authenticators! Request to authenticate please. Thank you!
Item: Court grey leather (correct me if I'm wrong)
Seller: thrift store, now hoping to add it to my collection!
Link: n/a
Comments: width is about 9,5", height 7", depth not quite 2,5", strap about 50"

Authentic court bag.

 

[Jacynthe]

Hello authenticators! Request to authenticate please. Thank you! (If this is one too many, please let me know and I'll ask at a later date. )
Item: Scooter (according to a web search)
Seller: thrift store, now hoping to add it to my collection!
Link: n/a
Comments: width is about 5,5",height 7", depth is a little over 2". strap is about 45".

 

[Jacynthe]

Authentic court bag.

Thank you BeenBurned! I saved this little cutie! I'm hoping she'll rehab as well as her sister did!

 

[Jacynthe]

Take your time. If you're still having problems, just post the serial number and what it says on the "Made in" line at the bottom of the creed. I feel pretty safe with this one because I haven't seen a fake of it yet. Unless it's one of the Coach remakes from the 1990s it's a few years too early to have been on the counterfeiters' radar. I have one of those in the twill fabric version and the details on yours seem ok.

Thank you Hyacinth!

 

[BeenBurned]

Hello authenticators! Request to authenticate please. Thank you! (If this is one too many, please let me know and I'll ask at a later date. )
Item: Scooter (according to a web search)
Seller: thrift store, now hoping to add it to my collection!
Link: n/a
Comments: width is about 5,5",height 7", depth is a little over 2". strap is about 45".

Authentic and from 1996.

 

[Jacynthe]

Authentic and from 1996.

Thank you BeenBurned!

 

[Yrelle]

If you're going to take chances like that, bags with a Costa Rica creed stamp are the safest bet.

That’s really good to know. Thanks! Keep learning new things in here. I’d like to know why is it a safer bet, though? I love Costa Rican vintage leather.

 

[Jacynthe]

Dear authenticators! Request to authenticate please. Thank you! (If this is one too many, please let me know and I'll ask at a later date. )
Item: Abbie, such a cutie!!!
Seller: thrift store, now hoping to add it to my collection!
Link: n/a
Comments: width is about 6,5",height 6", depth is about 2". strap is about 45". The creed is in the front slip pocket. She is in the middle of drying so the leather colour may look uneven.

 

[BeenBurned]

Dear authenticators! Request to authenticate please. Thank you! (If this is one too many, please let me know and I'll ask at a later date. )
Item: Abbie, such a cutie!!!
Seller: thrift store, now hoping to add it to my collection!
Link: n/a
Comments: width is about 6,5",height 6", depth is about 2". strap is about 45". The creed is in the front slip pocket. She is in the middle of drying so the leather colour may look uneven.

It's fine and made in 1997.

 

[Hyacinth]

That’s really good to know. Thanks! Keep learning new things in here. I’d like to know why is it a safer bet, though? I love Costa Rican vintage leather.

Because, so far anyway, CR doesn't seem like a plant that was faked. There may have been a handful but most fakes will use the US, China, Italy and rarely even Turkey.The fakes makers probably thought no one wanted bags made in Costa Rica. Of course that may change if classic styles are still being faked somewhere and the crooks or their minions read this post.