Authenticate This COACH - **see first post for format**

[Vlad]

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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
• Back of item
• Full clear and legible creed text and serial number
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• 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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Thank you and be safe!

 

[britmck]

Hello Authenticators! If any of you get the chance, can you please help me authenticate this bag? I just purchased it today and didn’t find any red flags, but I’d like more opinions. Thank you in advance.

Item: Vintage Coach Helen's Legacy Red Leather Bucket Feed Crossbody Bag Purse No 9953
Listing number: 303474816363
Seller: leewardind
Link: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F303474816363

 

[BeenBurned]

Hello Authenticators! If any of you get the chance, can you please help me authenticate this bag? I just purchased it today and didn’t find any red flags, but I’d like more opinions. Thank you in advance.

Item: Vintage Coach Helen's Legacy Red Leather Bucket Feed Crossbody Bag Purse No 9953
Listing number: 303474816363
Seller: leewardind
Link: https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.com%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F303474816363

It's fake. The font is incorrect for the 1997 D plant.

 

[britmck]

It's fake. The font is incorrect for the 1997 D plant.

Oh darn! Thanks so much for your quick response. I’m going to request a cancellation.

 

[valv54]

It looks good to me too.

Thank you!

 

[Roro]

Good morning, everyone. Posting this because I believe it's fake--that J8H prefix on a "made in the United States bag".

Vintage COACH 9085 Chocolate Brown Leather Duffel Sac Bucket Shoulder Bag
seller: melytins
item: 283773589449
link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-CO...589449?hash=item42123957c9:g:hsAAAOSws65eO6Ij

Seller has other Coach and Dooney bags in both current and completed listings. Thanks for your help and for making sure that no one winds up with a counterfeit bag.

 

[BeenBurned]

Good morning, everyone. Posting this because I believe it's fake--that J8H prefix on a "made in the United States bag".

Vintage COACH 9085 Chocolate Brown Leather Duffel Sac Bucket Shoulder Bag
seller: melytins
item: 283773589449
link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-CO...589449?hash=item42123957c9:g:hsAAAOSws65eO6Ij

Seller has other Coach and Dooney bags in both current and completed listings. Thanks for your help and for making sure that no one winds up with a counterfeit bag.

You're correct, it's fake.

Her other current Coach and Dooneys are okay but she sold this fake with NJG as the serial prefix:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-CO...=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

 

[Roro]

Thank you, BeenBurned. I will report it and I hope that others do so

You're correct, it's fake.

Her other current Coach and Dooneys are okay but she sold this fake with NJG as the serial prefix:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-COACH-Willis-Black-Leather-Crossbody-Bag-/283716781592?hash=item420ed68618:g:92wAAOSwDuld~FzN&nma=true&si=sNUv8e3q9PbmQFMXI1T0OcJK4%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557

as well.

ETA: already gone

 

[Syren]

Hello! Please authenticate

Item: Mini shopper tote

link: https://merc.li/ysBrbcVPb

Seller: David Barletta

better pic of creed:

 

[RadhaDB]

Hello! I would appreciate any authentication help for this bag, please.
Item: Bixby sling bag 9984
Dimensions: 10"h x 6"w
Not sure how to measure the strap but let me know if it's needed.

 

[Hyacinth]

View attachment 4658778 Hello! I would appreciate any authentication help for this bag, please.
Item: Bixby sling bag 9984
Dimensions: 10"h x 6"w
Not sure how to measure the strap but let me know if it's needed.

It's genuine

 

[whateve]

Hello! Please authenticate

Item: Mini shopper tote

link: https://merc.li/ysBrbcVPb

Seller: David Barletta

better pic of creed:
View attachment 4658708

It's authentic.

 

[RadhaDB]

It's genuine

Thank you!

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello! Please authenticate

Item: Mini shopper tote

link: https://merc.li/ysBrbcVPb

Seller: David Barletta

better pic of creed:
View attachment 4658708

Genuine. I think the color was just called Aqua.

 

[kstar54]

I saw it too!

Thanks for the great discussion on this. Can you tell me if the bag is truly old (60's) as the OG ebay post stated?

 

[whateve]

Thanks for the great discussion on this. Can you tell me if the bag is truly old (60's) as the OG ebay post stated?

Anyone been able to authenticate this?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-70S-COACH-LEATHERWARE-DRAWSTRING-RED-LEATHER-BUCKET-CROSSBODY-BAG/264624331311?_trkparms=aid=111001&algo=REC.SEED&ao=1&asc=20160908105057&meid=798539946b6348d78c9c6c068cfcb539&pid=100675&rk=3&rkt=15&mehot=none&sd=254498795117&itm=264624331311&pmt=0&noa=1&pg=2380057&_trksid=p2380057.c100675.m4236&_trkparms=pageci:000c0054-4863-11ea-92fc-74dbd18008b8|parentrq:175eeff31700a6e6f032cef2ffeaa01e|iid:1

In my opinion, it is authentic and hasn't been modified. I've seen at least one other like this. I don't know if any had an inside pocket so there was no place to place a full creed. @Catbird9 are you absolutely sure that the creed you posted is from a 4020?

ETA: More opinions are welcome!

I have several photos from a different 4020 and they match the serial-number-only construction that Whateve mentioned. I saved the photos on March 12, 2019 so maybe a look through the posts on or near that date might turn up the previous discussion.
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ETA - Yep, the previous discussion starts here and goes on for several posts:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...ost-for-format.889527/page-2358#post-32972265

starts with post 35358

ETA - one more photo
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No, it's not from the 60s. 60s bags have no numbers. It is from the Lightweights collection that was made 1988-1993.