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!

 

[Fiberluver]

Hi there!
I’m looking at this Coach Court bag on eBay and the stamped on creed is 0278-308 and am wondering is it authentic? The creed # is different since Cout bag was usually listed as 9870.

COACH Vtg Court Shoulder Bag 0278-308 Black Leather Brass Hardware Top Handle


Any information is helpful.

Thank you!
Natalie

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[americandreaming]

PLEASE READ the six Salearea Coach Guides for answers to common questions about Coach bags, especially vintage bags and details like serial numbers

SaleArea guides

Now that ebay is removing the guides they've been hosting for years, those who use those guides have been forced to either save them on their computers or print them. Tonight I found that the Salearea guides (including the Hyacinth/Salearea collaboration ones) have been saved to Salearea's...

forum.purseblog.com

Once you've read them, I'll be happy to authenticate the bag.

Thank you Hyacinth. I have reread them, sorry, I forgot about the serial numbers in pre-1994 bags not being identifiable. I'll make sure to go back regularly to keep myself refreshed.

 

[Narnanz]

WOW!!!...4000 pages of Authentication from our wonderful Authenticators @whateve @Hyacinth and @BeenBurned .
I want to thank all of these wonderful people for the time they give us to make sure we dont buy a baddie.

THANK YOU!!!

Now onto 5000 pages.

 

[Bee95]

Hi! What a great forum to stumble across. I recently bought this Coach backpack on Vestiare collective with direct shipping. The quality seems great and the serial number seems to make sense. However one thing I've noticed it that the metal zips on my bag are a bronze colour . Images of this bag online seem to have grey metal zips instead. The zipper heads on my bag seem to be a different colour to the zips. Any help is appreciated!

 

[BeenBurned]

Hi there!
I’m looking at this Coach Court bag on eBay and the stamped on creed is 0278-308 and am wondering is it authentic? The creed # is different since Cout bag was usually listed as 9870.

COACH Vtg Court Shoulder Bag 0278-308 Black Leather Brass Hardware Top Handle


Any information is helpful.

Thank you!
Natalie

View attachment 5060435

We need to see more than one picture to identify it.

And PLEASE READ the six Salearea Coach Guides for answers to common questions about Coach bags, especially vintage bags and details like serial numbers:

SaleArea guides

Now that ebay is removing the guides they've been hosting for years, those who use those guides have been forced to either save them on their computers or print them. Tonight I found that the Salearea guides (including the Hyacinth/Salearea collaboration ones) have been saved to Salearea's...

forum.purseblog.com

I found the listing. We need seller IDs and link to actual listings.

seller closet_ecology

COACH Vtg Court Shoulder Bag 0278-308 Black Leather Brass Hardware Top Handle | eBay

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">COACH Vintage Court Shoulder Bag 0278-308 Black Leather Brass Hardware Top Handle. </p> <br> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Good vintage condition!</p> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">*Please note ALL...

www.ebay.com

It's an authentic Court bag, style 9870 but as you'll read in the Salearea guides, it was made prior to 1994 and doesn't have the style number as part of the serial number.

 

[Hyacinth]

WOW!!!...4000 pages of Authentication from our wonderful Authenticators @whateve @Hyacinth and @BeenBurned .
I want to thank all of these wonderful people for the time they give us to make sure we dont buy a baddie.

THANK YOU!!!

Now onto 5000 pages.

You're welcome!

And don't forget the one, or is it two, previous threads that were archived.

How many more volumes do we need before we have the Oxford Unabridged English Dictionary beat?

 

[Roro]

The good news is that I've sold three red bags in the past week. The other news is that it's apparently time for a new one. My offer was accepted but I haven't paid yet.

Coach vintage red drawstring bucket bag (lula's legacy 9952 I'm hoping)
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-vintage-red-drawstring-bucket-bag/133729030608
Seller: athiele56
Item number: 133729030608

I bought my first of these a few weeks ago in yellow (!!!!) and was surprised how easy they are to carry. Hoping for good news here. Thank you all in advance. Proud to continue to advance the number of posts on these threads!!

 

[BeenBurned]

The good news is that I've sold three red bags in the past week. The other news is that it's apparently time for a new one. My offer was accepted but I haven't paid yet.

Coach vintage red drawstring bucket bag (lula's legacy 9952 I'm hoping)
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-vintage-red-drawstring-bucket-bag/133729030608
Seller: athiele56
Item number: 133729030608

I bought my first of these a few weeks ago in yellow (!!!!) and was surprised how easy they are to carry. Hoping for good news here. Thank you all in advance. Proud to continue to advance the number of posts on these threads!!

It's fine.

 

[Roro]

It's fine.

Thank you, @BeenBurned. Enjoy the rest of your day!!

 

[Fiberluver]

I found the listing. We need seller IDs and link to actual listings.

seller closet_ecology

COACH Vtg Court Shoulder Bag 0278-308 Black Leather Brass Hardware Top Handle | eBay

<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">COACH Vintage Court Shoulder Bag 0278-308 Black Leather Brass Hardware Top Handle. </p> <br> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">Good vintage condition!</p> <p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;">*Please note ALL...

www.ebay.com

It's an authentic Court bag, style 9870 but as you'll read in the Salearea guides, it was made prior to 1994 and doesn't have the style number as part of the serial number.

Thank you!

 

[Birdie13]

Authentic Rambler. Those spots look like mold and are probably permanent.

Hi, in the midst of cleaning this baby up. And yes, it’s mold, womp, womp. I can’t for the life of me figure out what colour it is. At the moment it actually looks like British Tan. What colours did they come in?

 

[Birdie13]

Hi, could you please authenticate. Bought at a thrift store. Measures 12” x10x 5”

It doesn’t look anything like this anymore

 

[bankermtg]

WOW!!!...4000 pages of Authentication from our wonderful Authenticators @whateve @Hyacinth and @BeenBurned .
I want to thank all of these wonderful people for the time they give us to make sure we dont buy a baddie.

THANK YOU!!!

Now onto 5000 pages.

Thank you for my Coach education. I have learned so much and have such a long way to go.

 

[whateve]

Hi, in the midst of cleaning this baby up. And yes, it’s mold, womp, womp. I can’t for the life of me figure out what colour it is. At the moment it actually looks like British Tan. What colours did they come in?

British tan is a possibility. Also tabac. We can only guess at colors as they change over time with use, we don't know the exact date the bag was made and which colors were available at the time, and catalogs don't always show all the colors they made a bag in. BT and tabac are listed on the catalog page for this bag so we know it came in those colors.

 

[Birdie13]

British tan is a possibility. Also tabac. We can only guess at colors as they change over time with use, we don't know the exact date the bag was made and which colors were available at the time, and catalogs don't always show all the colors they made a bag in. BT and tabac are listed on the catalog page for this bag so we know it came in those colors.

Thank you so much. Also, I have to say the Coach authenticators are the best. I asked about a bag in another forum. Was told if there wasn’t an online link, they wouldn’t bother. Paraphrasing, but that was the gist.