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

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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:
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  • FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Where purchased or how obtained
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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
  • 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.
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#46,096
Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if this Coach backpack is authentic? I've read that Coach bags always have YKK zippers, but all the 4922 style backpacks I've found online have also had zippers that say Coach (though it's possible that those are fake).
 

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#46,098
sarahsaturn said:
Hi everyone,

I was just wondering if this Coach backpack is authentic? I've read that Coach bags always have YKK zippers, but all the 4922 style backpacks I've found online have also had zippers that say Coach (though it's possible that those are fake).
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Wherever you found or read or heard that"Coach bags always have YKK zippers" is COMPLETELY WRONG. Never never NEVER judge a Coach's authenticity by the brand of zipper it has! Coach has used at least 6 or 8 different brands of zipper, and tens, maybe hundreds of thoiusands of fakes use zippers stamped YKK too. Any other information you heard or read from the same sources as the YKK Zipper Lie should also be conmpletely ignored.

Before you go any further, make a mental note to ignore anything that calls itself an "Authenticity Guide", there are no one or two details that can ever prove a Coach is genuine. What proves it's genuine is when every detail of construction, hardware, and the creed stamp and serial number are exactly correct and match every known known genuine example of the exact same style bag with the same style number and both made in the same plant, year, and preferably month too. And read the Salearea Coach Guides posted here at tPF and pinned to the top of every Coach Shopping forum index page. Start here and read the entire thread including the Daria48 Fake Coach Numbers list. THESE guides are accurate and up to date and don't include lies and nonsense that were proven wrong 10 or 15 years ago.
Start here:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/

The backpack is a genuine Sonoma Sling Natural Grain made in 1996.
 
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#46,103
Hyacinth said:
Wherever you found or read or heard that"Coach bags always have YKK zippers" is COMPLETELY WRONG. Never never NEVER judge a Coach's authenticity by the brand of zipper it has! Coach has used at least 6 or 8 different brands of zipper, and tens, maybe hundreds of thoiusands of fakes use zippers stamped YKK too. Any other information you heard or read from the same sources as the YKK Zipper Lie should also be conmpletely ignored.

Before you go any further, make a mental note to ignore anything that calls itself an "Authenticity Guide", there are no one or two details that can ever prove a Coach is genuine. What proves it's genuine is when every detail of construction, hardware, and the creed stamp and serial number are exactly correct and match every known known genuine example of the exact same style bag with the same style number and both made in the same plant, year, and preferably month too. And read the Salearea Coach Guides posted here at tPF and pinned to the top of every Coach Shopping forum index page. Start here and read the entire thread including the Daria48 Fake Coach Numbers list. THESE guides are accurate and up to date and don't include lies and nonsense that were proven wrong 10 or 15 years ago.
Start here:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/

The backpack is a genuine Sonoma Sling Natural Grain made in 1996.
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Thanks for all the information!
 
#46,104
Good day ladies
My apologies for posting on coach forum but can you tell me where to address a request to authenticate a bag not listed. I am trying to authenticate and date a Ganson bag I found in a thrift store.
Again my apologies for posting here and thanks if you can point me in the right direction.
 
#46,105
lmte246 said:
Good day ladies
My apologies for posting on coach forum but can you tell me where to address a request to authenticate a bag not listed. I am trying to authenticate and date a Ganson bag I found in a thrift store.
Again my apologies for posting here and thanks if you can point me in the right direction.
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I didn't scroll through the whole list but if you don't find a thread for the brand, you can start a new topic with "Authenticate this Ganson" in the title.
https://forum.purseblog.com/forums/authenticate-this.126/
 
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