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

[Vlad]

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!

 

[Morgan_Bellini]

The other day in a store the young SA called me mama. That annoyed me more than it should have.

So not ok. I'd have needed bail money that day for sure.

 

[Narnanz]

In high school I called my art teacher Mum...was absolutely mortified.

 

[carterazo]

It's authentic but the seller has a long history of mixing. While she may not intentionally sell fakes, she doesn't verify her items before listing them.
https://forum.purseblog.com/search/10391188/?q=mart5205&o=date&c[node]=113

It's authentic. Some people on the forum haven't been happy with the seller.

Thank you both! Much appreciated.

 

[BeenBurned]

Thank you both! Much appreciated.

Note that Whateve and I were each referring to different sellers.

She was commenting on station_85. I was commenting on mart5205.

 

[anthrosphere]

Item: red geometric bag
Seller: select2nds
Link: https://posh.mk/BGydUe1sm4
Comments: I found this beauty on Posh, if you can help me authenticate it, I would be grateful.

 

[Jheanne13]

Hi! New member here. A friend is selling me a used Coach Swagger. Can someone please check if it is real or fake? I read somewhere that swaggers have been copied and most are close to real ones. Thanks in advance!

Item: Swagger 27 Black Pebbled Leather
Photos:

 

[Hyacinth]

Item: red geometric bag
Seller: select2nds
Link: https://posh.mk/BGydUe1sm4
Comments: I found this beauty on Posh, if you can help me authenticate it, I would be grateful.View attachment 4674508View attachment 4674509View attachment 4674511

Genuine, made in 1997

 

[anthrosphere]

Genuine, made in 1997

Thank you!!

 

[Busykitty]

Request for authentication
https://merc.li/TDZT3jkMb
I’m questioning this B plant font
Thanks in advance!

 

[LunaSilver]

The other day in a store the young SA called me mama. That annoyed me more than it should have.

I wouldn't take that well myself, wouldn't say anything but definitely turn my back on her really quick
ETA: wait, are we vintage Coach lovers all vintages in life ourselves?

 

[Hyacinth]

I wouldn't take that well myself, wouldn't say anything but definitely turn my back on her really quick
ETA: wait, are we vintage Coach lovers all vintages in life ourselves?

Many of us probably are. And like vintage wines and vintage Coaches, we get better as we get older.

 

[KEW84]

https://posh.mk/maJEY23Wm4
Is this too good to be true? Thanks in advance I’m new here.

 

[Hyacinth]

Request for authentication
https://merc.li/TDZT3jkMb
I’m questioning this B plant font
Thanks in advance!

I'm questioning it too. I've found other examples of exactly the same font and many of them also have obviously fake details like non-Coach turnlocks or the wrong kind of magnetic snap. Unfortunately the Hippie Flaps don't have any similar hardware details that can be used for authentication. But the serial number font seems too large, and the "No" doesn't match other comparable serial numbers from the same plant and year.

Still checking, but I don't recommend buying it. More opinions are welcome, but I'd hesitate to report it with only a difference in the serial number to go by, especially during that period of Coach's history when plants were being closed and equipment and stamps bounced around among the plants that were still open

 

[whateve]

Request for authentication
https://merc.li/TDZT3jkMb
I’m questioning this B plant font
Thanks in advance!

I'm questioning it too. I've found other examples of exactly the same font and many of them also have obviously fake details like non-Coach turnlocks or the wrong kind of magnetic snap. Unfortunately the Hippie Flaps don't have any similar hardware details that can be used for authentication. But the serial number font seems too large, and the "No" doesn't match other comparable serial numbers from the same plant and year.

Still checking, but I don't recommend buying it. More opinions are welcome, but I'd hesitate to report it with only a difference in the serial number to go by, especially during that period of Coach's history when plants were being closed and equipment and stamps bounced around among the plants that were still open

I agree.

 

[BeenBurned]

I'm questioning it too. I've found other examples of exactly the same font and many of them also have obviously fake details like non-Coach turnlocks or the wrong kind of magnetic snap. Unfortunately the Hippie Flaps don't have any similar hardware details that can be used for authentication. But the serial number font seems too large, and the "No" doesn't match other comparable serial numbers from the same plant and year.

Still checking, but I don't recommend buying it. More opinions are welcome, but I'd hesitate to report it with only a difference in the serial number to go by, especially during that period of Coach's history when plants were being closed and equipment and stamps bounced around among the plants that were still open

Don't forget seller IDs in requests: Somental2009

LOL! I was checking around too. I believe the bag on Mercari is fake.

These are from my records. (Last picture is a creed from an authentic 1999 B bag.) Each comp is to the bag in question.



ETA: From @Hyacinth: "I'd hesitate to report it with only a difference in the serial number to go by"
I doubt that's an issue as I've never seen Mercari respond to a report!

ETA #2:
Here's another 1999 B creed from an authentic bag: