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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#53,341
Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!
Item: Scooter
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: Dimensions are 7 1/2" height, 5 1/2" width, 2 1/2" width. The plate on back of turn lock is flat but might be showing as indented because of reflections. Thank you!
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Hyacinth said:
You're asking ME why Coach made a decision over 20 years ago? Hell's Bells, kid, I don't know why they make ANY of their decisions, bone-headed or otherwise! Why did they stop putting the serial numbers on creed patches in 2014? And why did they put PHONY serial numbers in other bags during the same time? And why did they decide to close the Archive and let Jed Winokur go when he probably did more to earn his salary than 95 percent of Coach's top executives?

If they contact me with answers to THOSE questions, I'll ask them about the handle on the Lexington, although I seriously doubt if any of them will have the slightest clue what I'm talking about. Until then it will have to remain one of the unsolved mysteries of the corporate world, which we usually explain away by shrugging and repeating The Mantra - "The only consistent thing about Coach is their inconsistency". Just keep repeating it to yourself. It's like "what happened to DB Cooper?" We may never know. Some things are beyond the ken of mortal men. :biggrin:


(BTW, my guess is that the brass hardware was stronger than the leather mounts, especially when people were trying to carry one of those old 8 or 9 pound laptops from 20 or 25 years ago in a briefcase with handles held on by just a few dozen stitches.)
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so sorry Hyacinth for putting you under unnecessary stress! . The explanation of extra heavy laptops of yesteryears makes perfect sense!!
 
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Jacynthe said:
Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!
Item: Scooter
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: Dimensions are 7 1/2" height, 5 1/2" width, 2 1/2" width. The plate on back of turn lock is flat but might be showing as indented because of reflections. Thank you!
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Genuine, and made in 1994
 
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allycat91 said:
Nervous because it doesn' follow "standard" codes that can be verified! So it looks OK?

Thank you for looking.
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It looks fine. That's why we have authenticators who know how to verify old serial numbers. It's from the early 1990s.

And please don't think that "newer" numbers with the codes are OK because the codes look right. Every single one of them still should be authenticated. Fakes makers can copy serial numbers from genuine bags. There's no serial number by itself that can ever prove a "Coach" is genuine just from the numbers and letters.
 
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Hyacinth said:
It looks fine. That's why we have authenticators who know how to verify old serial numbers. It's from the early 1990s.

And please don't think that "newer" numbers with the codes are OK because the codes look right. Every single one of them still should be authenticated. Fakes makers can copy serial numbers from genuine bags. There's no serial number by itself that can ever prove a "Coach" is genuine just from the numbers and letters.
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Thank you very much :)
 
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