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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
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  • Full clear and legible creed text and serial number
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  • 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
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houseof999 said:
Ooh look I found another Regina with a 9985 serial number!
https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/303350834536
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Comment: I am not buying this bag but I do believe it's authentic. If you look carefully at all the other 9983 serial numbers, you will notice the 8 is always stamped a little higher than the 9 on its left.
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And here is the Creed stamp from the Regina I purchased.
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To me it looks like both 9985 bags have the digit 8 stamped the same way as all the other 9983 stamps. Mine is from April and the current one on eBay is from March. So whoever was making the mistake was doing so from March - November it seems.
I would love to hear all the authenticators opinion on this. Agree/disagree?
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I don't have a problem with either number stamping. Using a difference in height as proof can be dangerous, those digits in the stamp mechanism were adjusted individually during that time period and any one of them could easily be out of line compared to the others. This C plant stamp from that time period seems to have had fewer problems than most other plant stamps although there are a few differences in the hyphens.

I agree, all of them appear to have neen stamped by the same mechanism.
 
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Narnanz said:
So you can get a bag which has a letter and two numbers in the first part of the serial number?
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Yes. For bags made after 1994 and excluding the nonsense creeds used in some recent bags, the first digit is always a letter, as it is the month code. The next one or two digits is the year code. After that comes the plant code. The earliest plant codes were letters but after that they started using numbers, first one digit and now they are two digits. This is all explained in the Salearea guides.
 
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whateve said:
Yes. For bags made after 1994 and excluding the nonsense creeds used in some recent bags, the first digit is always a letter. The earliest plant codes were letters but after that they started using numbers, first one digit and now they are two digits. This is all explained in the Salearea guides.
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Thank you...will have to read them again...there is so much to take in.
 
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Narnanz said:
So you can get a bag which has a letter and two numbers in the first part of the serial number?
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Yes, that's mentioned in the Salearea Guides. Several plants including some of the early Chinese ones used single number plant codes including 0, 3, 6, and 9. Turkey used the letter "i" which is sometimes mistaken for a One, and also the number "2".
 
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Ajohnson22 said:
View attachment 4583983 View attachment 4583984 Hello, this is my first time on this site so forgive me if I'm doing it wrong. I would love to know any information about this bag I bought at an estate sale.
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That's beautiful. It's a Metropolitan brief bag #5180 made in the 1980s. The color appears to be burgundy. It will look gorgeous after a rehab. You can visit our rehab club for pointers on how to restore it. https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/coach-rehab-and-rescue-club.833400/
 
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