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:
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• 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!

 

[whateve]

Dear authenticators, are you able to give me some information on why the Prairie whateve authenticated for me is fake? It didn't cost alot but still, I think I'd like to take it back. Thank you!

Do you have another Prairie to compare? The padding above the turnlock should curve and follow the shape of the turnlock. This is what a F4D creed should look like. Note the old creed wording, the font, and how "No." looks.

 

[Jacynthe]

Do you have another Prairie to compare? The padding above the turnlock should curve and follow the shape of the turnlock. This is what a F4D creed should look like. Note the old creed wording, the font, and how "No." looks.

Aha! Yes, I have a BT to compare. Now I see. Thank you so much whateve for sharing this with me. I love learning about these vintage Coach that I have madly fallen in love with!!!

 

[Narnanz]

Could I have this Basic Bag? Checked out please
Link https://www.ebay.com/p/2310088223
Seller merler-marketing
Ta muchly

 

[mialily7]

Both are genuine, the red one is a Sonoma Pocket Drawstring from 1996, and the tan one is an Equestrian Drawstring from 1997.

Thank you so much @Hyacinth !! I truly appreciate your help and time! Hope you have a lovely weekend!

 

[mialily7]

I have that red bag and it is one of my favorites!

That's great to hear, especially coming from you @whateve ! Then I am definitely getting the red one to make it my first vintage coach drawstring bag! I am trying to work on downsizing, and probably don't need another drawstring bag, but I am quite tempted to get the tan equestrian drawstring as well...
Thank you so much for your help in authenticating the black court bag the other day! Hope you have a lovely weekend.

 

[whateve]

Could I have this Basic Bag? Checked out please
Link https://www.ebay.com/p/2310088223
Seller merler-marketing
Ta muchly

It's authentic.

 

[Luvpurplepurses]

Genuine, but it's not vintage since it won't be 20 years old for another 12 years, and it's not a wristlet since there's no place to attach a wrist strap. It's some kind of Patchwork Clutch made in 2008 for the Madison line but the "Madison" part is just a guess. I'll see if it's in any of my catalogs.

ETA - nothing in my catalogs but I know I've seen it on their online site years ago.

Thanks @Hyacinth

 

[Luvpurplepurses]

It's a Patchwork Lila from 2008.

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Thanks @whateve

 

[Jacynthe]

Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!
Item: Unable to find, I must not be looking in the correct place.
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 7" height, 10" width, 3" depth

 

[Narnanz]

It's authentic.

thank you

 

[houseof999]

There were many free items made for the Japanese market that don't have the same level of quality we normally see. I would guess this is one of those. More opinions are welcome.

A lot of those inexpensive items were free give-aways included with some Japanese fashion magazines and were never meant to be retail items. I'm pretty sure this is one of them.

Thank you both! Learned something new!

 

[hachi29]

That's correct. Not only is that serial number always fake, but that style would NEVER had a serial number in an all-numeric pre-1990s format or a creed with that wording, but the word "scrtches" is misspelled. There are several other major problems with it too including the quality and construction of the bag.

Thanks Hyacinth! Will DM the seller shortly. Apparently the bag sold in less than an hour! Poor buyer!

 

[jdal622]

Hi all! It's me again!
I was out and about today for the first time in awhile and I came across the vintage coach jackpot! If they're real of course. Lol
Found all at my goodwill.
It's not letting me upload them all at once so, I'll number and post them one at a time.
Here's 1.

 

[jdal622]

Found at goodwill.
This one is 2.

 

[jdal622]

Found at my goodwill.
Here's 3.