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:
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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.

Thank you and be safe!

 

[Narnanz]

It's authentic. I don't know how it would fare in a dunk. I do know that it is a mistake to brush this suede with a stiff brush.

thank you...will wait for the rehabbes to reply in rescue thread

 

[BeenBurned]

I'm seeing that you posted the same creed picture for both bags. You didn't post the creed for the court.

Duh! Sorry. I need to be more careful when I'm on my phone!

 

[Roro]

I didn't find everydaythings71 posted here on TPF however it looks like she sells on Etsy as GreenbeevintageCo:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/GreenbeevintageCo?ref=l2-about-shopname

She's the seller who restitches in white (mentioned by @houseof999 a while back) over the factory stitching!

This is from the listing you asked about:
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Ugh! Here's another example on a Willis.
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I thought the white stitching looked wrong on that bag. Why would she do that?

You ladies take my breath away! I must learn to pay more attention to the small things. Thank you so much!

ETA: I just went back and looked at the original posts about the stitching. I can't believe she would do that! Why?? Oh my gosh--compliments at Target and TJ Maxx?? Ladies, you certainly saved me!!

 

[kistae]

The creed and serial number are almost impossible to read, and if the year code is for 2000, I can't find any other example from that year with the same odd spacing between the month and year codes and the plant code, and the plant code is unreadable.

More opinions are needed. Maybe someone else can see something I'm missing.

Hi Hyacinth, thank you so much for your input. I think I'll pass on the bag after all.

 

[kistae]

Rather than straining my eyes trying to decipher anything, perhaps @kistae can request a better creed picture from the seller, Nancy Reed Owner of AuntNannysTreasures.

ETA: I strained my eyes anyway and it wasn't too helpful. (April, 2000 Mexico?) I still don't recommend unless the seller sends a better picture.
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Thanks for the adjusted photos. This was actually the additional creed photos I asked for as it wasn't initially in the listing. In her initial description, she said the bag was purchased in 1989 and it's been updated to state early 1980s (last I checked). She seems quite genuine based on her previous sales history but I think I'll pass on this. Thanks again.

 

[Nanny1517]

Sheesh, with today's cameras and phones, it doesn't take a pro to get good clear pictures!

Well, you trying sticking your camera inside a handbag and take a picture, lol. The creed states the bag was made in Mexico and the number is DON-9525

 

[whateve]

Well, you trying sticking your camera inside a handbag and take a picture. The creed states the bag was made in Mexico and the number is DON-0525

I bet you read or wrote the number wrong. I've sold many bags, including that style and I've managed to get clear pictures. That style is easier to get a picture since the bag is large. It is much harder on some of the smaller bags.

With all the fakes on the market, you should really try to get a clear picture so your buyers can feel confident they are going to get an authentic bag.

 

[Nanny1517]

Hi Hyacinth, thank you so much for your input. I think I'll pass on the bag after all.

Well, you trying sticking your camera inside a handbag and take a picture. The creed states the bag was made in Mexico and the number is DON-0525

The creed and serial number are almost impossible to read, and if the year code is for 2000, I can't find any other example from that year with the same odd spacing between the month and year codes and the plant code, and the plant code is unreadable.

More opinions are needed. Maybe someone else can see something I'm missing.

DON-9525 made in Mexico

 

[Nanny1517]

I bet you read or wrote the number wrong. I've sold many bags, including that style and I've managed to get clear pictures. That style is easier to get a picture since the bag is large. It is much harder on some of the smaller bags.

With all the fakes on the market, you should really try to get a clear picture so your buyers can feel confident they are going to get an authentic bag.

Yes I agree with that. I definitely need to learn how to take better photos. I do appreciate all the traffic this has created for my shop. One final note, I purchased this either late 80s or early 90s from the Coach outlet store in Tuscola, Illinois.

 

[Hyacinth]

Well, you trying sticking your camera inside a handbag and take a picture, lol. The creed states the bag was made in Mexico and the number is DON-9525

Just to give you a bit of background, BeenBurned has probably done exactly that literally thousands of times. She gives advice based on a LOT of experience.

 

[Lake Effect]

Sheesh, with today's cameras and phones, it doesn't take a pro to get good clear pictures!

I know really! A Stewardess? C’mon. You want hard? Try inside a Winnie, or Abbie. Or inside the kiss lock of a Shoulder Purse!! Props to all the sellers taking clear pics of the inside of a kiss lock pouch.
I’m not seller yet, but have taken Creed pics for this thread and have looked at thousands of Creed pics over the past few years.

 

[Lake Effect]

I thought the white stitching looked wrong on that bag. Why would she do that?

Lol, she must be a super fan of contrast stitching! You know, what you see on the 930x Bleeker family, late 90s, of which I am a regular fan And several of my late 80s early 90s BT bags have white stitching too. I would draw the line at adding contrast stitching to a bag.

 

[BeenBurned]

Yes I agree with that. I definitely need to learn how to take better photos. I do appreciate all the traffic this has created for my shop. One final note, I purchased this either late 80s or early 90s from the Coach outlet store in Tuscola, Illinois.

Based on my lightened and brightened picture of your creed (shown in my previous post), I do believe the serial number is D0N-9525 and if it says "made in Mexico" the bag is genuine.

But you definitely didn't buy it in the 80s or 90s because it wasn't made until April of 2000.

As someone who has taken thousands of pictures of creeds and tags in bags of all sizes, I'd like to offer a hint. If you use a plastic straw, spoon, spatula, toothpick or other similar utensil, you can get decent and legible pictures of the inside of a bag, even small ones.

This is the creed from a mini belt bag, about 6" wide x about 2" thick. This is a tiny bag but it can be done!
Pictures show the original and a slightly brightened version.


Just so you know, some styles are closely faked and the stewardess is one of them. (By closely faked, I mean that the details are seemingly correct, the bag looks like the style it's copying and the creed has the "correct" style number.) Therefore clear and legible pictures are crucial in order for you to prove authenticity and for buyers to know what they're getting.

 

[LunaSilver]

Good morning, could you please authenticate this eBay listing, thanks.
Seller: flimsy41
https://www.ebay.com/itm/143263405233

 

[Narnanz]

Hello there...can I have this Ergo Shopper looked at please.
link https://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Vint...gany-Brown-Hobo-Leather-Vintage-/153909049737
Seller thewavingdog