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

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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!
 
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Ireiki4u said:
Please authenticate when you can, She put it on hold until I know if it’s authentic.
Is this a Bonnie Cashin? Thank you
listing: Coach
Seller: maryclark120
Link: https://poshmark.com/listing/Coach-5e9263203ce93393a2f12834
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It's a COPY of a Cashin style. But since Cashin ended her partnership with Coach in 1974(?) and this bag has not only a creed and serial number (which genuine Cashin bags never have) but the creed dates from the late 1980s at the earliest, it was not made anywhere close to Cashin's day. It's from the 1991 Retro collection for Coach's 50th Anniversary and was called a Retro Swing Bag, style 9002.

There are no proven Cashin-made bags with serial numbers or creed stamps.
 
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Hyacinth said:
It's a COPY of a Cashin style. But since Cashin ended her partnership with Coach in 1974(?) and this bag has not only a creed and serial number (which genuine Cashin bags never have) but the creed dates from the late 1980s at the earliest, it was not made anywhere close to Cashin's day. It's from the 1991 Retro collection for Coach's 50th Anniversary and was called a Retro Swing Bag, style 9002.

There are no proven Cashin-made bags with serial numbers or creed stamps.
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Thank you
 
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kthybrown007 said:
Hello,
I just received a bag I purchased on ebay. I have a feeling it is fake. Could someone please take a look?
Thanks so much,
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If you could please put the seller's name in your request, as the forum keeps records of sellers.

I'm not an authenticator, but the salesarea guidelines in the forum do say that bags made in Korea are fakes.
 
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houseof999 said:
Thanks for the pics. I don't see anything alarming. All details look good except that extra detail: the hangtag/bag charm hanger ring. I cannot say for sure but my guess is that this bag was a sample (hence the S) which was used to take Coach's official stock photos. I obviously have no way of proving this but if you look at stock photos of this bag you can see that extra hardware. So all that to say that bag isn't fake. However, since it's a sample, it can't be authenticated as it's not one of the bags from the production line.
It's one of a kind.
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Is a sample bag the same as bags on display in a Coach boutique?

I ask because I have noticed from time to time some of the serial numbers of bags in the store are a bunch of zeros, maybe because they only sell the bag to employees or something?

I've seen that in some stock photos too, but it doesn't seem consistent (though as @Hyacinth says the only thing consistent about Coach is their inconsistency!).
 
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LaVisioneer said:
Is a sample bag the same as bags on display in a Coach boutique?

I ask because I have noticed from time to time some of the serial numbers of bags in the store are a bunch of zeros, maybe because they only sell the bag to employees or something?

I've seen that in some stock photos too, but it doesn't seem consistent (though as @Hyacinth says the only thing consistent about Coach is their inconsistency!).
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No they are not the same as the display items in stores. Coach doesn't sell bags that have 00000 or 99999 serial number. They get out as the employees get/buy them or they are sold through "sample sales".
 
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kthybrown007 said:
Hello,
I just received a bag I purchased on ebay. I have a feeling it is fake. Could someone please take a look?
Thanks so much,
KathyView attachment 4708477 View attachment 4708478 View attachment 4708479 View attachment 4708480 View attachment 4708481 View attachment 4708482 View attachment 4708484 View attachment 4708487 View attachment 4708488 View attachment 4708489
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Saaski said:
If you could please put the seller's name in your request, as the forum keeps records of sellers.

I'm not an authenticator, but the salesarea guidelines in the forum do say that bags made in Korea are fakes.
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whateve said:
We need the seller's name and a link to the listing.
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kthybrown007 said:
I was mistaken, it was Mercari, and the seller is POSHCULT.
Thank you.
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Seller POSHCULT
Link: https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m40870892257/

The bag is fake. Open a dispute to return it and let Mercari know that you received a fake.
 
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kthybrown007 said:
Hello,
I just received a bag I purchased on ebay. I have a feeling it is fake. Could someone please take a look?
Thanks so much,
KathyView attachment 4708477 View attachment 4708478 View attachment 4708479 View attachment 4708480 View attachment 4708481 View attachment 4708482 View attachment 4708484 View attachment 4708487 View attachment 4708488 View attachment 4708489
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And if Mercari wants to know WHY it's fake, it's a very long list. There's absolutely nothing right about that bag.

Just for starters:
Fake style, fake non-Coach hardware with a fake stamp Coach never uses, wrong turnlock padding shape, fake non-Coach turnlock, fake zipper pull that should never say "Coach", inside zipper is too short, totally fake creed stamp, "coachbag" as a single word is never used by Coach, creed spacing is all wrong, Strap buckle hardware is wrong, shape of the tabs holding the strap on is wrong, and most important, the serial number is too short and invalid, missing the "No" in front of it, and if you had searched these tPF forums or even Google for "coach Korea" or "Coach made in Korea" you would have found hundreds of posts saying any "COACH" handbag that says Made In Korea is always fake. Like I said, there's nothing right about it.
ETA - and the punctuation used in the creed is wrong, there are 2 periods missing.

Please authenticate all Coach purchases here BEFORE buying, or search the forums here. Just one look at the first photo in the listing would have told us everything we needed to know, and the Made in Korea stamp on the creed would have clinched it.
 
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