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.
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  • 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.
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  • FOR ITEMS LISTED ONLINE:
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    Listing number:
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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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I don't have catalog pics but I did find these (saved from online listings):

Pink (as tagged):

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Unknown color, maybe Golden Yellow:

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ETA: a couple more pictures if you search the Kisslock Club thread:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/kisslock-club.970967/

@CoachChris helped me to identify my Retro Lindy Bag 9003. She said that the 1991 Anniversary Catalog listed it for $162 and described the bag as "Gold plated steel frame with knob closure. 10x7x5." My bag is the Golden Yellow color; I have also seen it in Black and Peacock Blue but I had never seen the Coral Pink version until @Catbird9 just posted the photos above. The white Lindy bag was a surprise to me!

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Thanks for these pics and additional info! I love that it came in so many colors...
 
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Dear Authenticators, please authenticate this eBay listing, I understand only 2 out of 3 bags have creed photos. As long as there is no red flags, I will take the chance. Thanks.
Seller: rebootvintage
https://www.ebay.com/itm/223951503143

One of the two creeds shown is fake, the font is wrong and the style number doesn't match the bag. And I doubt if the blue-ish one is a Cashin, and it may not even be a Coach. The seller has been discussed here before, about selling fakes and about the lack of creed photos. At the price they're asking and with the listing already showing a major red flag, I'd keep looking if I were you.

ETA - the seller is even too lazy to write their own description, this one looks like pieces of Ebay's "catalog.

EATA - take a look at the closeup of the kisslock in the blue bag. There IS some badly worn name stamped under the lock and it's not Coach, the First letter looks like a large capital "N". I'm not familiar with many non-Coach Cashin stamps but it doesn't seem like one of hers either, maybe someone who's seen other Cashin marks can take a look.
 
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Please read and FOLLOW the directions and supply the information required in Post number one of this thread,. like it says at the top of every page.

And please do not use shortened URLs, we want to see the actual URLs of the listings, not a page of For Sale adverts. The only "Coach" I'm seeing on the first site is a paper shopping bag with the Coach name on it. And there's only one useless photo for the third one.

We also don't recommend buying from Facebook sellers.
 
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One of the two creeds shown is fake, the font is wrong and the style number doesn't match the bag. And I doubt if the blue-ish one is a Cashin, and it may not even be a Coach. The seller has been discussed here before, about selling fakes and about the lack of creed photos. At the price they're asking and with the listing already showing a major red flag, I'd keep looking if I were you.

ETA - the seller is even too lazy to write their own description, this one looks like pieces of Ebay's "catalog.
Thank you very much Hyacinth. I should have done my homework and search for the name of seller first. Definitely will contact the seller to cancel the bid.
 
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