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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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Jacynthe said:
Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!
Item: Red hobo legacy (or so I think)
Listing number: reference number LU10324529721
Seller: I just started looking at this site and all I can find is 'vetted seller'.
Link: https://www.1stdibs.com/fashion/han...h-tomato-red-shoulder-bag-1970s/id-v_4529721/
Comments: Is this really a Bonnie Cashin design from the 1970s? It looks more recent. Way out of my price range!!!!
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That's a GLARING example of not just SNAD - Significantly Not As Described - but it's an outright damned LIE It's bad enough when sellers use Cashin's name in listings for actual vintage if non-Cashin bags, but this is just inexcusable. I wouldn't buy anything from that seller OR that website. Not only was the bag made 34 years after Cashin stopped designing for Coach, not only did she never design a style like that AFAIK, but by 2002 which is the date code in the serial number, Bonnie Cashin had been DEAD for 2 years.

Don't ever depend on sellers' descriptions to be accurate unless you know the seller is a trusted tPF member. Even if they claim to be one, don't depend on their word alone.

I can't see any price in the listing. What is she asking for that?
 
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Hyacinth said:
That's a GLARING example of not just SNAD - Significantly Not As Described - but it's an outright damned LIE It's bad enough when sellers use Cashin's name in listings for actual vintage if non-Cashin bags, but this is just inexcusable. I wouldn't buy anything from that seller OR that website. Not only was the bag made 34 years after Cashin stopped designing for Coach, not only did she never design a style like that AFAIK, but by 2002 which is the date code in the serial number, Bonnie Cashin had been DEAD for 2 years.

Don't ever depend on sellers' descriptions to be accurate unless you know the seller is a trusted tPF member. Even if they claim to be one, don't depend on theor word alone.
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Thanks Hyacinth! I thought the bag looked more recent but needed the experts' opinions and you and BeenBurned confirmed what I suspected. I was unfamiliar with this site and it looked like estate sales. I guess their vetting criteria is quite dodgy. :hrmm:
So, this seller must know who is Bonnie Cashin enough to name drop and hope nobody notices. Oh! I forgot to add the seller is asking 425$US.
 
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Jacynthe said:
Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!
Item: Red hobo legacy (or so I think)
Listing number: reference number LU10324529721
Seller: I just started looking at this site and all I can find is 'vetted seller'.
Link: https://www.1stdibs.com/fashion/han...h-tomato-red-shoulder-bag-1970s/id-v_4529721/
Comments: Is this really a Bonnie Cashin design from the 1970s? It looks more recent. Way out of my price range!!!!
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BeenBurned said:
It's authentic but not even close to 1970s!

The bag isn't even vintage yet; it was made in 2002.
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Hyacinth said:
That's a GLARING example of not just SNAD - Significantly Not As Described - but it's an outright damned LIE It's bad enough when sellers use Cashin's name in listings for actual vintage if non-Cashin bags, but this is just inexcusable. I wouldn't buy anything from that seller OR that website. Not only was the bag made 34 years after Cashin stopped designing for Coach, not only did she never design a style like that AFAIK, but by 2002 which is the date code in the serial number, Bonnie Cashin had been DEAD for 2 years.

Don't ever depend on sellers' descriptions to be accurate unless you know the seller is a trusted tPF member. Even if they claim to be one, don't depend on theor word alone.

I can't see any price in the listing. What is she asking for that?
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I'll update if there's anything to post, but "someone" contacted the seller and let her know how inaccurate and misleading her listing is!:P

ETA: So far, it's been about 40 minutes without a reply but the seller might be doing her BLack Friday shopping looking for more BC bags.
 
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Hyacinth said:
That's a GLARING example of not just SNAD - Significantly Not As Described - but it's an outright damned LIE It's bad enough when sellers use Cashin's name in listings for actual vintage if non-Cashin bags, but this is just inexcusable. I wouldn't buy anything from that seller OR that website. Not only was the bag made 34 years after Cashin stopped designing for Coach, not only did she never design a style like that AFAIK, but by 2002 which is the date code in the serial number, Bonnie Cashin had been DEAD for 2 years.

Don't ever depend on sellers' descriptions to be accurate unless you know the seller is a trusted tPF member. Even if they claim to be one, don't depend on theor word alone.

I can't see any price in the listing. What is she asking for that?
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Only about $440 US!!
 
#43,554
Hyacinth said:
That's a GLARING example of not just SNAD - Significantly Not As Described - but it's an outright damned LIE It's bad enough when sellers use Cashin's name in listings for actual vintage if non-Cashin bags, but this is just inexcusable. I wouldn't buy anything from that seller OR that website. Not only was the bag made 34 years after Cashin stopped designing for Coach, not only did she never design a style like that AFAIK, but by 2002 which is the date code in the serial number, Bonnie Cashin had been DEAD for 2 years.

Don't ever depend on sellers' descriptions to be accurate unless you know the seller is a trusted tPF member. Even if they claim to be one, don't depend on their word alone.

I can't see any price in the listing. What is she asking for that?
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425$US. And without a hang tag!!!!!
 
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Morgan_Bellini said:
Dang, lady! Do you shop with valv54? You guys find all the nice bags. Didn't you score a red Derby too?
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Yup, Morgan_Bellini, that was me with the red derby! You made out well too with your haul! The derby was kinda pricey (12$) and awhile back, in the girl's section I found a mini belt bag (that was a score at 5$)!!! Seriously, we have nothing like this in MTL! NY thrift makes my head explode!!! :nuts::nuts::nuts: In a good way!!! :biggrin::biggrin::biggrin: I'll be requesting another authenticate this Coach in a little while tonight.
 
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