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:
    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!
 
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Hyacinth said:
It's hard to do a forum Search for Goodwill listings, just searching for "Goodwill" as the seller will bring up a LOT of listings. Or if the poster abbreviated it as "GW" as some obviously do, the Search won't pick it up if only "goodwill" is specified. You might find it if the original poster included the GW listing number in her post, but sometimes they don't. It's important that we have as much of that kind of information as possible included in authentication requests so members and authenticators can use the search engine effectively.

Even when the forum regulars make a habit of clicking on every or almost every listing being asked about, we can't always remember them all if another poster happens to ask about the same bag a few weeks or months later, but sometimes that's the only way to remember and find pervious posts about the same item. It takes time to figure out the most effective way of doing a Search but eventually you begin to figure out the best method based on the information available.
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Thanks for the tips! I’ll work on coming up with a better system. Apologies again for making you ladies do double work.
 
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BeenBurned said:
You have the incorrect seller ID for the listing that comes up and the bag shown isn't an NT fake but IS another fake.

These are the pictures:
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The seller of the bag on Etsy is GutsyGirls and she has a long history of listing fakes and being discussed here.

There are 6 pages (!!!) of discussion on her:
https://forum.purseblog.com/search/9505439/?q=debbieb208&o=date

And as a warning to those who may search ebay for vintage bags, although debbieb208 isn't selling Coach on ebay, she IS selling using classiccottage7 .

What the heck? This is one of her current listings:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/223696221102

ETA: Hyacinth was up earlier than I and beat me yet again!
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good morning authenticators! whenever time allows..

just wanted your feedback on the similarity of the font used in the saddle bag in the quotes vs this bag that was sent to me.

item: saddle bag?
seller: a good friend sent me this bag from the US.
here are the photos. and as always thank you for your time!

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#42,547
Good Morning Authenticators! Hope everyone is well! I've been MIA for a couple of years but I'm finally tired of the bins of purses in my garage mocking me every time I walk past. :eek:

I have two for today which I will post separately. These are in my possession, purchased years ago.

Bag #1 is approximately 8.5 x 8.5 x 2.5 with a 22" strap drop. Hopefully you can see the creed, it was difficult to get a good shot.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Neweirs01 said:
Good Morning Authenticators! Hope everyone is well! I've been MIA for a couple of years but I'm finally tired of the bins of purses in my garage mocking me every time I walk past. :eek:

I have two for today which I will post separately. These are in my possession, purchased years ago.

Bag #1 is approximately 8.5 x 8.5 x 2.5 with a 22" strap drop. Hopefully you can see the creed, it was difficult to get a good shot.

Thanks in advance for your help!

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Genuine Lindsay Bag, style 9888 from around 1993-1994.
 
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akvt said:
good morning authenticators! whenever time allows..

just wanted your feedback on the similarity of the font used in the saddle bag in the quotes vs this bag that was sent to me.

item: saddle bag?
seller: a good friend sent me this bag from the US.
here are the photos. and as always thank you for your time!

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Why would you want to compare the fonts? The fake "Saddle Bag" from the earlier post is fake, period. The fonts used in that one have no connection to reality. I assume this is the one you mean?
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...oach-fakes-here.824098/page-432#post-33408322

The one in THIS post #42547
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...ost-for-format.889527/page-2837#post-33413942
a- is genuine
b- isn't a Saddle Bag, it's a Crescent Bag, style 9235. I'm not sure if that's the original hangtag.
and
c- the Made in NYC creed and lack of a serial number indicates it was made some time in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Even if the creed fonts were identical, which they're not, all it would prove is that the fakes makers were either very careful or very lucky. It's not that hard to copy or reproduce a font that would have been used in at least a few Coach bags some time during that 25-year vintage and classic period.

(BTW, the creed stamp font used in the fake from the earlier post is noticeably rounder, compare the "o"s, the "c"s and the "g"s to the same letters in your friend's vintage Crescent Bag.)

Having an identical font to another bag doesn't prove anything. After all, there are a limited number of fonts that were used in classic and vintage Coaches. What's important is having exactly the font and creed and serial number details that a bag is supposed to have for the month, year and plant indicated in the serial number, or in this case, the years when a bag with those particular production details would have been made. Having the "correct" font proves nothing. Having the WRONG font proves everything.
 
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Charlie’sBag said:
Hi. I’d appreciate it if you’d please authenticate these bags for me. As always, thanks in advance for all your help!

Seller: GW
Listing Number: 78633460
Link: https://www.shopgoodwill.com/Item/78633460
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Charlie’sBag said:
So sorry! I’ll be more careful in the future.
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Hyacinth said:
It's hard to do a forum Search for Goodwill listings, just searching for "Goodwill" as the seller will bring up a LOT of listings. Or if the poster abbreviated it as "GW" as some obviously do, the Search won't pick it up if only "goodwill" is specified. You might find it if the original poster included the GW listing number in her post, but sometimes they don't. It's important that we have as much of that kind of information as possible included in authentication requests so members and authenticators can use the search engine effectively.

Even when the forum regulars make a habit of clicking on every or almost every listing being asked about, we can't always remember them all if another poster happens to ask about the same bag a few weeks or months later, but sometimes that's the only way to remember and find pervious posts about the same item. It takes time to figure out the most effective way of doing a Search but eventually you begin to figure out the best method based on the information available.
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Charlie’sBag said:
Thanks for the tips! I’ll work on coming up with a better system. Apologies again for making you ladies do double work.
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Apologies not necessary.

I remembered the Regina because of the mismatched hangtag so I searched the listing number from your post, "78633460" and it came up. It was your helpful request with all the information that made in possible to find that previous post.
https://forum.purseblog.com/search/9529212/?q=78633460&o=date&c[node]=113
 
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