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!

 

[whateve]

Hi! I’m out thrifting and found this gorgeous backpack! It’s $40 so I want to make sure it’s real before purchasing! Thank you!

It's fine.

 

[Pursehoarder2025]

That was so fast!!! Thank you!!!

 

[Jacynthe]

Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!

Item: City bag
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 7" height, 11" width, 3 1/2" depth ETA; pardon the upside down creed, I have no idea why it comes out like that urggh!

 

[Hyacinth]

Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!

Item: City bag
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 7" height, 11" width, 3 1/2" depth ETA; pardon the upside down creed, I have no idea why it comes out like that urggh!

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Genuine, made in 2006

 

[Jacynthe]

Genuine, made in 2006

Thank you so much Hyacinth for sharing your time and knowledge!!! I appreciate it!!

 

[Jacynthe]

Dear authenticators, request to authenticate please. Thank you!!!

Item: I was not able to find a name.
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 7" height, 10" width and less than 1" depth. No creed, only plastic made in China tag.

 

[NikkiTheVet]

Would you mind looking at this Mercari bag I just purchased?
Seller :kiwi1
https://merc.li/UCdgDRW2b

Thanks!

 

[whateve]

Would you mind looking at this Mercari bag I just purchased?
Seller :kiwi1
https://merc.li/UCdgDRW2b

Thanks!

It looks good.

 

[NikkiTheVet]

It looks good.

Yeah!! Good thing-she just shipped. Thanks whateve. Merry Christmas!

 

[the-boneyard]

Hello! Thanks in advance, bought this one at a yard sale. For $15 I'm not upset either way, but here's hoping it's a real one!

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello! Thanks in advance, bought this one at a yard sale. For $15 I'm not upset either way, but here's hoping it's a real one!

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Genuine Legacy Small Zip from 1997

 

[BeenBurned]

Hmm. I think this bag is authentic but I can't recall having seen a Dominican Republic made bag with a scrambled prefix.

What's odd is that I have a comp from the X plant (DR) that this creed matches (except for the scrambled prefix).

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[Hyacinth]

Hmm. I think this bag is authentic but I can't recall having seen a Dominican Republic made bag with a scrambled prefix.

What's odd is that I have a comp from the X plant (DR) that this creed matches (except for the scrambled prefix).

Seller math-6417

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I have 3 different stamps on file for that "Z" plant just in 2002 so I wouldn't worry about a scrambled prefix. They were just using whatever stamps were left over from other plant closures, especially in anything with X and Z codes. In those last few years of Western Hemisphere production, all the usual rules and conventions were flushed down the toilet. The best thing to do is try to ignore the stampings unless it's a really serious problem and just concentrate on the bag's details.

Here's another one:


ETA - Remember, these are being made in plants where the employees are just a few months away from permanently losing what were probably the best jobs they'd ever had. People in that position stop caring about doing things by the book. And just like I saw with Chrysler when they were teetering on the edge of bankruptcy and closing plants right and left, some of the "mistakes" were probably deliberate. Or the employees had just stopped caring.

There's also the practical matter of Asian-based counterfeiters being much more likely to use a MADE IN THE UNITED STATES creed in their fakes. Much more believable to their target buyers than "made in the dominican republic". Heck, if some buyers back then refused to believe that Coach would make bags in Italy, who in their right minds would believe a DR stamp? Most buyers (and counterfeiters!) probably couldn't even find the DR on a map, much less believe that there was a Coach plant there.

 

[BeenBurned]

I have 3 different stamps on file for that "Z" plant just in 2002 so I wouldn't worry about a scrambled prefix. They were just using whatever stamps were left over from other plant closures, especially in anything with X and Z codes. In those last few years of Western Hemisphere production, all the usual rules and conventions were flushed down the toilet. The best thing to do is try to ignore the stampings unless it's a really serious problem and just concentrate on the bag's details.

Here's another one:
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Thank you. I didn't see any other problems but hadn't seen any other examples of the scrambling on DR bags. Now I have 2 examples!



On another note since we're talking about DR creeds and plant codes, I have a third plant code for the Dominican Republic. Do you have a 1997 H plant DR creed in your records?

 

[Hyacinth]

Thank you. I didn't see any other problems but hadn't seen any other examples of the scrambling on DR bags. Now I have 2 examples!



On another note since we're talking about DR creeds and plant codes, I have a third plant code for the Dominican Republic. Do you have a 1997 H plant DR creed in your records?

Yes, only one, for a Neo made in December with an outlet stamp. It may even be the same one you have.