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
  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!

 

[Jacynthe]

Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!

Item: Nottingham 9948?
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 8" height, 9" width, 4" depth. There are no indentations on the back of the turn lock. The bottom of the bags seems sloppy as I have previously seen in fakes.

 

[Paris Girl]

I'll also add my 2 cents about why I choose who I authenticate for. Here are just a few recent comments directed to tPF and to BeenBurned and me specifically by an "unfriendly" site owner who I'll just call "D-D" but who we've previously discussed. The seller of the white Devon is a member and site cheerleader in good standing there:

Hyacinth...you are an idiot!

So I troll TPF for deals and Information? I don't think so! I watch them so they don't get away with $h1tting on me or fellow members. If anyone knows someone that does more for the Vintage coach world than me, speak your piece. Done with rant. TPF and Hycinth are LOSERS.

(and right under copies of the tPF avatars of BeenBurned and me)
A$$holes of the Month...and Cece...glad you found a home you braggart and nosey A**hole!

(edited for obscenities)


He can call me names until he's blue in the face, I've never given a flying feck about that kind of childish behavior. But I see no reason to lift a finger to do anything that in any way promotes that site and any of their sellers who participate in the insults, lies and BS.

So, am I justified in refusing to authenticate her items? You decide.

Thanks! This made my day! Another temper tantrum called a rant. Just to give you an idea the seller in question uses the same language as D-D, very crude and rude. Most people have interests outside online venues so hopefully, they don’t call FB groups or this Forum their “home”. The tone of that rant is like something out of grade school except for the obscenities.

 

[Hyacinth]

Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!

Item: Nottingham 9948?
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 8" height, 9" width, 4" depth. There are no indentations on the back of the turn lock. The bottom of the bags seems sloppy as I have previously seen in fakes.
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Genuine, probably still considered a Canterbury. It's hard to be sure exactly when Coach changed the name to Nottingham. I think it was in early 1995.

 

[Hyacinth]

Thanks! This made my day! Another temper tantrum called a rant. Just to give you an idea the seller in question uses the same language as D-D, very crude and rude. Most people have interests outside online venues so hopefully, they don’t call FB groups or this Forum their “home”. The tone of that rant is like something out of grade school except for the obscenities.

Exactly. That's why the word "Cult" in his main FB page is so appropriate. If anyone thinks that word has any positive connotations, I have a pitcher of Kool-Aid they can drink.

 

[Paris Girl]

Exactly. That's why the word "Cult" in his main FB page is so appropriate. If anyone thinks that word has any positive connotations, I have a pitcher of Kool-Aid they can drink.

Btw, the seller I referred to was the one who sitiches over the factory stitching with white thread.

 

[Jacynthe]

Genuine, probably still considered a Canterbury. It's hard to be sure exactly when Coach changed the name to Nottingham. I think it was in early 1995.

Thank you Hyacinth! I was unaware that L was a United States plant.

 

[Hyacinth]

Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!

Item: Soho Worth bag?
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 7 1/2" height, 10" width, 4 1/2" depth. Sorry for the upside down photo included. For some unknown reason, I was never able to get it rotated. Strap is about 46" long

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Yes, a genuine Soho Worth bag, 1996

 

[Jacynthe]

Yes, a genuine Soho Worth bag, 1996

Thank you again so much Hyacinth for sharing your time and knowledge!!!

 

[Hyacinth]

Btw, the seller I referred to was the one who sitiches over the factory stitching with white thread.

After seeing a few of the bags she bragged about "improving" with her stitching skills (COUGH), I'm not surprised if she has a looser grip on reality than many of us.

 

[Hyacinth]

Thank you Hyacinth! I was unaware that L was a United States plant.

Keep in mind that more than one of those "mid-alphabet" plant codes were "floaters". They were often assigned to various plants as needed. We think of "P" as being for Costa Rica but it's also been used for an unknown plant that used a US creed. "M" bounced around more than a tennis ball at Wimbledon, mostly back and forth between the US and Costa Rica. Remember, quite a few of what we call "Coach plants" weren't permanently owned by Coach. They had their main plants like A, B, C. and D but much of their production was done at plants they rented or leased, often just partially, for various time periods and to fill seasonal or unexpected demand.

That's one reason I'll never make any kind of master list of plant codes, there are just too many changes that some of those letters and numbers have gone through, and it got even crazier once Coach started prepping for the move to China at the end of the 1990s. There are a very few like Italy that could be considered almost permanent, but as you went deeper into the alphabet, the plant locations often changed as needed. That's why keeping records of when those codes were used by which plants is so important.

 

[houseof999]

Good morning authenticators , I would love your help authenticating this purse I purchased, through PayPal Merchant,
Thank you in advance for your help

What country does it say on the back of the black tag? Can you take a pic of the back? Also does your lining have COACH woven into the fabric?

 

[Hyacinth]

Could somebody look at this city bag for me. I’m not interested in buying it because I have one already. Just curious and trying to learn. I know the 2 is correct for Turkey but the spacing is throwing me off as well as the o in No.

Thanks

Item: City Bag
Seller: Ctobias81
Link: https://merc.li/hjpb2zmeb

It's genuine, that's exactly what the serial number of the Turkey plant in 1996 should look like.

 

[Jacynthe]

Keep in mind that more than one of those "mid-alphabet" plant codes were "floaters". They were often assigned to various plants as needed. We think of "P" as being for Costa Rica but it's also been used for an unknown plant that used a US creed. "M" bounced around more than a tennis ball at Wimbledon, mostly back and forth between the US and Costa Rica. Remember, quite a few of what we call "Coach plants" weren't permanently owned by Coach. They had their main plants like A, B, C. and D but much of their production was done at plants they rented or leased, often just partially, for various time periods and to fill seasonal or unexpected demand.

That's one reason I'll never make any kind of master list of plant codes, there are just too many changes that some of those letters and numbers have gone through, and it got even crazier once Coach started prepping for the move to China at the end of the 1990s. There are a very few like Italy that could be considered almost permanent, but as you went deeper into the alphabet, the plant locations often changed as needed. That's why keeping records of when those codes were used by which plants is so important.

Thank you Hyacinth! I really appreciate you sharing this with us. Super interesting!

 

[jennnhpl]

Hi,
I have a Coach purse that was handed down to me by my mother-in-law. I read the 1st post on page 1 of this thread posted by the admin. I tried searching the serial number in the search bar at the top right, however, nothing comes up. I don’t know how to search within this thread specifically, so I hope someone can let me know if this is authentic. If additional pictures are needed, please let me know and I can take some to post. I appreciate any advice, thank you!
-Jenn

 

[jennnhpl]

Hi,
I have a Coach purse that was handed down to me by my mother-in-law. I read the 1st post on page 1 of this thread posted by the admin. I tried searching the serial number in the search bar at the top right, however, nothing comes up. I don’t know how to search within this thread specifically, so I hope someone can let me know if this is authentic. If additional pictures are needed, please let me know and I can take some to post. I appreciate any advice, thank you!
-Jenn

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