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
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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!

 

[hetha2001]

One of the Salearea Guides was modified in 2018 to say that a few serial numbers in the older 3+4 all number format are sometimes found in bags from the early 1990s, maybe made in 1992 or as late as early 1993. The one in your photos could be one of those or it could be from late 1989, depending on the style. It's almost impossible to be precise about dates during that late 1980s-early 1990s period because there's no way to know when the bag was actually made. I'm guessing 1989 or maybe early 1990s, because it has an outlet stamp, and that probably puts it around 1990 or the early '90s, but there's no way to know how long the bag was sitting in the store before being sent to the outlets.

Since it's a Lindsay and that style was apparently introduced in Spring 1991, it's probably one of the oddballs that used the older 3+4 serial number format. So it's 1991 at the earliest.

Confused yet? Your guess is about as good as mine. Anyway, it's not that important unless it becomes a question of authentication.,

BTW, are youn using an older copy of the Salearea Guides? There's a newer version that I updated in 2018 posted and Pinned right here in the Coach Shopping forum:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/page-2#post-32253054

It includes these additions (bolded) among several others others which you don't seem to have in your copy, note the addition of the part about the 3+4 format being used in some 1991-92 bags:
"Once serial numbers began to be used, they originally had 7 numbers with the abbreviation for Number "No" in front (serials without that "No" in front usually mean Korean-made fakes), then 3 numbers, a dash, and 4 more numbers (No 123-4567). Somewhere around 1989-1990 they changed to 4 numbers, the dash and 3 numbers (No 1234-567) and this format was used until 1994. (There are also a handful of bags from 1991-92 that still used the older 3+4 number format). The serial numbers were completely random and had nothing at all to to with the style number of the bags, so there's no way to learn the style number from the serial number of a bag made before 1994. Every all-number serial was unique to each bag and never repeated, multiple bags with exactly the same all-number serials are very probably fake. (Serial numbers are a complicated subject and one that I'll cover in another post.)"

The complete updated Salearea Guides posts begin here:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/

Thanks for this info!

 

[mln11]

Hello! Could someone tell me if this is real/ more about this bag?
This is a brown, leather, cross-body bag. It has two creeds, both with serial numbers. It is approx. 7''x 5''x 1.5''
Serial Numbers are in pockets and read No.004-3629 & No. 407-9530
Both creeds read :This is a coach bag. It is made out of a completely natural glove tanned cowhide. The scars, scratches, veins and wrinkles are natural markings characteristic of full-grain leathers. Made in New York City, U.S.A.
I've included many pictures- please let me know if you need anything else! Thanks!

 

[whateve]

Hello! Could someone tell me if this is real/ more about this bag?
This is a brown, leather, cross-body bag. It has two creeds, both with serial numbers. It is approx. 7''x 5''x 1.5''
Serial Numbers are in pockets and read No.004-3629 & No. 407-9530
Both creeds read :This is a coach bag. It is made out of a completely natural glove tanned cowhide. The scars, scratches, veins and wrinkles are natural markings characteristic of full-grain leathers. Made in New York City, U.S.A.
I've included many pictures- please let me know if you need anything else! Thanks!

We've seen this bag before. Did you buy it from this listing? https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintage-Coach-NYC-BagSaddle-or-Tabac-leather-5e12297cc953d8fec21d15c0 In the future, if you've bought a bag online, please follow the forum rules and post a link to the listing and the name of the seller. The photos in the listing would have sufficed. You didn't provide a picture of the bag closed.
I authenticated it on April 2. It's authentic. It's a very rare mistake.

 

[mln11]

Hello! Could someone tell me if this is real/ more about this bag?
This is a brown, leather, cross-body bag. It has two creeds, both with serial numbers. It is approx. 7''x 5''x 1.5''
Serial Numbers are in pockets and read No.004-3629 & No. 407-9530
Both creeds read :This is a coach bag. It is made out of a completely natural glove tanned cowhide. The scars, scratches, veins and wrinkles are natural markings characteristic of full-grain leathers. Made in New York City, U.S.A.
I've included many pictures- please let me know if you need anything else! Thanks!

@nav

We've seen this bag before. Did you buy it from this listing? https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintage-Coach-NYC-BagSaddle-or-Tabac-leather-5e12297cc953d8fec21d15c0 In the future, if you've bought a bag online, please follow the forum rules and post a link to the listing and the name of the seller. The photos in the listing would have sufficed. You didn't provide a picture of the bag closed.
I authenticated it on April 2. It's authentic. It's a very rare mistake.

My apologies! I thought I was only to post the listing if I didn’t buy it yet. But yes I purchased it from that listing. (First time doing this- sorry!!)
Thank you!

 

[mln11]

@nav



My apologies! I thought I was only to post the listing if I didn’t buy it yet. But yes I purchased it from that listing. (First time doing this- sorry!!)
Thank you!

We've seen this bag before. Did you buy it from this listing? https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintage-Coach-NYC-BagSaddle-or-Tabac-leather-5e12297cc953d8fec21d15c0 In the future, if you've bought a bag online, please follow the forum rules and post a link to the listing and the name of the seller. The photos in the listing would have sufficed. You didn't provide a picture of the bag closed.
I authenticated it on April 2. It's authentic. It's a very rare mistake.

Any idea on year? Or what style name is called?

 

[whateve]

Any idea on year? Or what style name is called?

It's 9740 mini pouch made in the mid 1980s.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello! Could someone tell me if this is real/ more about this bag?
This is a brown, leather, cross-body bag. It has two creeds, both with serial numbers. It is approx. 7''x 5''x 1.5''
Serial Numbers are in pockets and read No.004-3629 & No. 407-9530
Both creeds read :This is a coach bag. It is made out of a completely natural glove tanned cowhide. The scars, scratches, veins and wrinkles are natural markings characteristic of full-grain leathers. Made in New York City, U.S.A.
I've included many pictures- please let me know if you need anything else! Thanks!

It's a genuine Mini Pouch, style 9740, from around 1986.

We've seen a few bags with 2 different creed stamps before, sometimes the factory made mistakes.

 

[mln11]

Style/year/authentic?
https://posh.mk/dthRVT8S75

Thanks!!

 

[whateve]

It's a genuine Mini Pouch, style 9740, from around 1986.

We've seen a few bags with 2 different creed stamps before, sometimes the factory made mistakes.

It's the same bag we saw on April 2.

 

[whateve]

Style/year/authentic?
https://posh.mk/dthRVT8S75

Thanks!!

It's an authentic pocket purse #9755, made in the early 90s.

 

[mln11]

Style/year/authentic?
https://posh.mk/GLVhR4WT75

https://posh.mk/6DLetJ3T75

https://posh.mk/TXf7g26T75

 

[Hyacinth]

It's the same bag we saw on April 2.

Also on Monday and Tuesday in the Vintage thread.

 

[Hyacinth]

Style/year/authentic?
https://posh.mk/GLVhR4WT75

https://posh.mk/6DLetJ3T75

https://posh.mk/TXf7g26T75

Please include the seller names as required in the post at the top of each page, as well as any other required details.


Meanwhile, I'm going to bed.

 

[angelheenim]

Hi, I found a bag online as per checking with the code it looks like its from mid ti late 1970. Can you let me know what is it called and if it is authentic.

Thanks!

Item: 0426-042
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed
Link: https://ph.carousell.com/p/1002654779
Comments:

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi, I found a bag online as per checking with the code it looks like its from mid ti late 1970. Can you let me know what is it called and if it is authentic.

Thanks!

Item: 0426-042
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed
Link: https://ph.carousell.com/p/1002654779
Comments:

I'm not sure what "code" you mean since there aren't any "codes" in Coach purses made before 1994, only a random string of numbers that have no meaning and are individual to each bag. That one was made in the early 1990s, not the 1970s.

If you want to know the correct way of figuring out a serial number, you need to read the Salearea Coach Guides posted at the top of the index pages of this forum:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/salearea-guides.983575/

This one is a genuine Classic Hobo, style number 9755, but we've seen many fakes being sold on the Carousell website. There is a serious problem with counterfeit items being sold in the P.I. and anything from that site and others always should be authenticated.