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

[Vlad]

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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!

 

[fireson435]

Hi I picked this purse up at a local charity shop and i'm trying to authenticate it.
What I have so far.

This is a bag with a top zipper, an interior flap, no markings on the outside, and a double strap.
The serial number is on a flap/pouch on the inside of the purse.

Item Name: basic bag convertible clutch
Purse Style: 9455 basic bag
Estimated Year: 1975
Images: http://imgur.com/a/teDWI

I havent found any information about this bag in this color/ pebbled leather though.

Thank you so much in advance!

 

[whateve]

Hi I picked this purse up at a local charity shop and i'm trying to authenticate it.
What I have so far.

This is a bag with a top zipper, an interior flap, no markings on the outside, and a double strap.
The serial number is on a flap/pouch on the inside of the purse.

Item Name: basic bag convertible clutch
Purse Style: 9455 basic bag
Estimated Year: 1975
Images: http://imgur.com/a/teDWI

I havent found any information about this bag in this color/ pebbled leather though.

Thank you so much in advance!

It is an authentic basic bag, also called a zippered clutch. It was never called a convertible clutch, as that is a different style. I doubt it was made as early as 1975. It was made anytime from the late 70s to the late 80s. I can't see the sides very well in your pictures, but we have a theory that the bags with shorter tabs on the sides may be earlier versions. The leather wasn't intentionally pebbled. Yours is more pebbled than most, but that may be from age or condition. It would benefit from a bath and moisturizing. Colors are very difficult to pin down. I see 3 or 4 different different shades in your pictures, depending on the light. It might be tabac or putty.

 

[shop_aholic]

Hi,

Could you please authenticate this coach park hobo. I want it so bad but it does not have serial number in its creed.

Item: NWT Coach Park Leather Hobo Shoulder Bag F31323 Saddle
Seller: wins16489
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/NWT-Coach-P...630?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item2a49722c3e

Thank you in advance.

 

[JOODLZ]

Thank you-- it makes so much more sense now! The wrist strap is most likely original to the bag but it was meant to attach to the little ring just inside the bag rather than to the main zipper. I've just tried this and it is so much better. Thanks again!

I bought 2 of these at a GW back in 2005...gave the navy one to my sister and kept the BT one. Mine is missing the little ring inside, so you may want to use caution attaching the wrist strap there...just sayin'

 

[noshoepolish]

Ina today: http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl

Buyer accused seller and another seller of selling fake Coach. Seller got defect. Wonder what the buyer ID is.

 

[BeenBurned]

Ina today: http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl

Buyer accused seller and another seller of selling fake Coach. Seller got defect. Wonder what the buyer ID is.

That OP's story sounds familiar. I wonder if I read it here. If so, maybe the seller can disclose the buyer's ID.

 

[whateve]

Ina today: http://www.ecommercebytes.com/C/letters/blog.pl

Buyer accused seller and another seller of selling fake Coach. Seller got defect. Wonder what the buyer ID is.

That isn't me but I had something similar happen. I sold a wallet I had bought at the outlet. The buyer clicked on "return this item" and "item is counterfeit" for the reason. I replied that it was authentic and I had the receipt. She backed down immediately and said she was sorry. She decided to keep it. After talking to her, she said the reason she thought it was fake was because she had the same wallet but hers had a different color zipper. After I explained that different color wallets have different color zippers, she realized her mistake. She closed the return request but I still have a defect.

In my case, the buyer wanted to withdraw her claim but ebay doesn't let her do that. Even though we both agree it isn't fake, that defect is there for the next 11 months.

 

[BeenBurned]

coach leather brown hippie flap shoulder cross body

hungergames2010

131378154148

http://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-Leath...148?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item1e96bf8aa4

creed njg?

The bag is fake and hungergames2010 is a long time mixer.

http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-sh...2.html?highlight=hungergames2010#post27642682

http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-sh...4.html?highlight=hungergames2010#post27633928

http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-sh...2.html?highlight=hungergames2010#post26673023

I'm posting this because I just realized (after finding another fake) that hungergames2010 and hungergames88 are the same seller with multiple IDs, both of whom have "histories" of listing and selling fakes.

I just discovered another fake, this time from hungergames88 .

http://www.ebay.com/itm/COACH-Helen...041?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item20f2a3f9b9

ETA: AND YET ANOTHER FAKE! Also from hungergames88:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Patri...428?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item1e96bc6edc

And that bag's creed:

I don't recommend hungergames2010 or hungergames88.

Here are some of the previous fakes:

December 20, 2014 - hungergames2010: http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-shopping/authenticate-this-coach-889527-6.html#post27804401

November 9, 2014 - hungergames2010: http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-sh...0.html?highlight=hungergames2010#post27639652

November 7, 2014 - hungergames2010: http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-sh...4.html?highlight=hungergames2010#post27633928

April 15, 2014 - hungergames2010: http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-sh...3.html?highlight=hungergames2010#post26590424

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January 7, 2014 - hungergames88: http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-shopping/authenticate-this-coach-818914-626.html#post25980856

And in case there's any doubt in anyone's mind that they are the same person both from NY, NY, compare the pictures in these listings, one from each.

 

[missbaltimore]

I bought 2 of these at a GW back in 2005...gave the navy one to my sister and kept the BT one. Mine is missing the little ring inside, so you may want to use caution attaching the wrist strap there...just sayin'

Thanks for the heads up. At first I was fiddling with that little ring thinking it might be a snap attachment. I figured out it is not but it does seem a bit vulnerable.

 

[missbaltimore]

Here are another couple bags from GW that I've dug out of the rehab pile now that it's too cold to even think about going anywhere (and I'm not in the midwest where it's 10x worse!) TIA!

Coach Peyton Leather Flap 14524
12" long x 7" tall x 3" deep.
I love the melon color but not the big stain on the bottom

 

[missbaltimore]

And the second one...

Coach Backpack 9858
8" long x 10" tall x 4.5" deep
I'd love the real name of this bag too-- I've found West Legacy and West Studio and East West and a bunch of others in between.

 

[kristisan]

Could someone please help me to authenticate this Coach stewardess bag?

Item: RECONDITIONED COACH AUTH GORGEOUS BURGUNDY STEWARDESS BAG #9525_USA_ALMOST MINT
Item no: 331432028352
Seller: handbagsaccessoriesshoes
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/331432028352?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Thanks in advance!!

 

[whateve]

Could someone please help me to authenticate this Coach stewardess bag?

Item: RECONDITIONED COACH AUTH GORGEOUS BURGUNDY STEWARDESS BAG #9525_USA_ALMOST MINT
Item no: 331432028352
Seller: handbagsaccessoriesshoes
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/331432028352?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Thanks in advance!!

It looks good.

 

[missbaltimore]

Could someone please help me to authenticate this Coach stewardess bag?

Item: RECONDITIONED COACH AUTH GORGEOUS BURGUNDY STEWARDESS BAG #9525_USA_ALMOST MINT
Item no: 331432028352
Seller: handbagsaccessoriesshoes
Link: http://www.ebay.com/itm/331432028352?_trksid=p2055119.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

Thanks in advance!!

Oooh she's really pretty!

 

[BeenBurned]

Here are another couple bags from GW that I've dug out of the rehab pile now that it's too cold to even think about going anywhere (and I'm not in the midwest where it's 10x worse!) TIA!

Coach Peyton Leather Flap 14524
12" long x 7" tall x 3" deep.
I love the melon color but not the big stain on the bottom

Authentic.

And the second one...

Coach Backpack 9858
8" long x 10" tall x 4.5" deep
I'd love the real name of this bag too-- I've found West Legacy and West Studio and East West and a bunch of others in between.

Authentic.