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

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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)
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  • 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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Will you please share the tote before and after? I'm jonesing for this tote it was in my cart but I didn't pull the trigger. Did anyone know the style number from the lightweights/ collection? TY!

Good morning,
Would one of you mind having a look at the two following items.
item: xl tote.
seller: rockawaybeach11
ebay listing: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-COACH-4739-X-Large-Beige-Zip-Tote/274458934794
I’m afraid of the ink stains, but she looks so sad. I‘m a sucker for the old Talon zippers too!


item: double zip shoulder bag Italy made
seller : junkshop
ebay listing : https://www.ebay.ca/itm/Coach-Shoul...ather-Light-Green-Italy-Hang-Tag/392625644710

I’ve read all I can find on this site about the Italian bags and am intrigued by this one. Curious if it’s genuine or not.
Thank you so much. Have a fantastic day.
Both are fine. The first is from the lightweights collection from the early 90s. The second one is a Sonoma double zip natural grain. It isn't what we are usually talking about when we talk about Italian bags, Madison and Gramercy.
 
The larger "plates" at least were apparently replaced at a later date by what looks like genuine Coach pieces, which is good. I'm not sure about the center twisty part of the turnlock but the front and back plates were replaced some time between 1996 to the present.

And if you enjoy finding new leather care products to add to your arsenal, have I got a place for you!

Our Coach Rehab And Rescue Club thread over at the Coach Clubhouse in our main Coach forum has literally THOUSANDS of posts on everything from getting pen marks out of Coach leather to taking care of funky odors and mildew, and if you have the patience to go through the current and the Archived posts there you'll find enough product recommendations for every kind of leather care product on the market to keep anyone who likes or works with fine leathers happy.

Navigate here:

The very first post has a link to the previous very long thread saved in the Archives.

ETA - CORRECTION - the Archived pages are either temporily or permanently gone, they may have just been relocated. Regular posters to that thread will probably know, or you might come across the link as you go through the thread.
Wow! Amazing information and oh my gracious at Coach Rehab! I think I have found my new favorite place on the web! Thank you SO much for all your wonderful information. I feel so much better about listing by bag now. Your detailed information about the lock will also give my buyer and authentication site enough information that hopefully, Mercari will approve the authentication. Many thanks!!
 
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Would you report this?
seller: mgrahme

Flap too big, Back pocket construction wrong, logo in wrong place.


Sorry, I'm just not familiar enough with the vintage styles to give an opinion.
 
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