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
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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!
 
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#54,412
VSOP said:
Good day authenticators, Can you please look at this bag?

Item: Vintage Coach Janice Legacy 9950 Coata Rica
Seller: lisadcastillo
Link: https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintage-Coach-Janice-Legacy-9950-Coata-Rica-5f80c3b1ff8304fd053da691

can you please tell me what kind of leather this is? Is it considered saddle? Or British tan? Thanks!
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It's authentic. It's not vintage, it was made in 2004. The leather is burnished, which with Coach means the color varies towards the edges. It seems much darker than British tan. It might be vicuna.
 
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#54,417
Hyacinth said:
Apparently she also has a history about stretching the truth about the designer of the bag too.

I just want to remind everyone buying or selling vintage Coach that Bonnie Cashin ended her collaboration with Coach in 1974. (That was a good 15 years before this bag was made).

Please always be extremely cautious about bags being labeled as "Bonnie Cashin" by uneducated or unscrupulous sellers to pump up the perceived value. If Cashin had designed or made all the bags sellers have claimed for her, she would have been chained to her desk at Coach until sometime around 2007. (And since she died in February of 2000 that would have been a little unpleasant). If a Cashin attribution is important to you, please ask us if it's correct.

Never accept a seller's guess about style names, production dates, and especially designers as gospel without asking someone here who knows.
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Thank you for this information Hyacinth! Good to know and keep in mind.
 
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