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!

 

[Hyacinth]

I'm NOT an authenticator. I have one of these. I'm NOT authenticating this. Just trying to be helpful.

It's already been authenticated.

 

[Syaki]

Thank you very much. Would happen know the color or this peice?

 

[Hyacinth]

I would pay..if they would take chocolate as payment.

Edit...would still pay....these guys are so great and their knowledge is amazing.

Lindt Lindor Truffles are always an accepted form of currency at Chez Jacinthe.
Anything but Coconut is legal tender.

 

[Hyacinth]

Thank you very much. Would happen know the color or this peice?

It's probably British Tan

 

[Syaki]

Thank you very much. Would happen know the color or this peice?

 

[Syaki]

I kind of thought so. I get the colors luggage and british tan mixed up.

Thanks again.

 

[whateve]

I kind of thought so. I get the colors luggage and british tan mixed up.

Thanks again.

luggage wasn't a vintage color.

 

[whateve]

Lindt Lindor Truffles are always an accepted form of currency at Chez Jacinthe.
Anything but Coconut is legal tender.

I don't like coffee either.

 

[Syaki]

Thanks again.

 

[KitOHara]

All the items in all 3 sets of photos are genuine.

Thank you!

 

[KitOHara]

This is a Shoulder Purse No. 9385

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Very helpful! Thank you for sharing this catalog page (I also saw your later post - understood).

 

[klc2021]

I know this is the Authenticate thread, but does anyone here know where I could see examples of past coach leather colors? I saw one chart of classic and soho that was posted way back and this group is always referencing years for certain colors and types and color names. If this isn't the right place for this question, can you suggest where to ask?

 

[whateve]

I know this is the Authenticate thread, but does anyone here know where I could see examples of past coach leather colors? I saw one chart of classic and soho that was posted way back and this group is always referencing years for certain colors and types and color names. If this isn't the right place for this question, can you suggest where to ask?

Ask in the vintage chat thread if you are interested in vintage colors. They have been posted in the past.

 

[klc2021]

Ask in the vintage chat thread if you are interested in vintage colors. They have been posted in the past.

Awesome, thanks!

 

[BeenBurned]

A friend thought it may have been a prototype patch. I'll upload more pictures soon. It's absolutely amazing

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This was purchased in the 80's from a coach store in Charlotte, North Carolina. I've never seen a creed like this. Have any of _you? Thank you

It's probably the lighting. I can take better pictures and post them. My aunt bought it, but she is no longer alive. It's a beautiful tote.

That still doesn't tell me why the inside pocket is different from every other similar tote.

Please wait for @whateve. I can't authenticate it based on what I'm seeing. It MAY be OK but I want another opinion. It may even be some sort of creative repair job by Coach but there's no way to know that or prove it.

We've been away on vacation with minimal computer time so I'm late in catching up to this discussion.

I don't know whether @whateve expressed an opinion yet but based on the pictures, my (uneducated) opinion is that the bag appears to me that it's not made by Coach and someone used a creed from a different bag and glued it in to this tote.
1. The creed is a different color and texture than the pocket it's attached to
2. The creed seems to be glued to the pocket without any stitching holding it there. Although Coach used glued on patches for serial numbers and we've seen how they frequently fall off, I doubt they'd ever glue a full creed because if that creed fell off, there's nothing to prove the bag was Coach.



Again, my opinion is that the bag was not made by Coach and someone used a creed from a different bag and glued it in to this tote.

Of course. I never asked if it was authentic. I asked if anyone had seen a creed like this before. Thank you

But you posted on the authentication thread, which when posting there IS what you're asking. Although you claim the bag was purchased from Coach, unless you personally bought it, you don't know for sure where it came from. And if you WERE the original purchaser, you would have said that.

My suggestion to you is that unless @whateve or @Hyacinth confirm otherwise, I wouldn't advise trying to sell it unless you remove that patch that someone glued on! (I don't think this was a "prototype" as your "friend" believes.)

JMHO!