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!

 

[Hoku44]

Hi Ladies,
I'm at Goodwill now and I'm hoping you can look at this bag for me? It's $34.99 so I don't want to make another mistake.
Thanks!!

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OMG! What a find! Congratulations!

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi Authenticators,

Item: Small Flap Bag Natural Grain
Where purchased or how obtained: another Red White & Blue
Comments: Does the tag look okay to you? I’ve never seen it separate like that before. Did it just come un-glued you think?

Thank you!

It's a genuine Sonoma Small Flap Natural Grain made in 1996. Many hangtags from the 1990s were two pieces glued together and often separated like that, not just the ones on Sonomas. It was such a common occurance that some counterfeiters during the 1990s and early 2000s made their fakes with what they hoped would look like two halves of once-glued together hangtags. From Spring 1997:

 

[Hoku44]

May I please have an authentication?

Item(s): lot of 3 - two Willis and one mercer (?) I'm not familiar with newer styles
Seller: shopats
Site: Ebay
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/353655224507

Comments: The creeds were not included in the listing but the seller emailed them to me
'Creed2' looks to be a taupe color yet the listing shows a saddleback (?) color so I have mixed feelings. Is it just lighting?

 

[Hyacinth]

Thanks for looking into it. Was really hoping it was yellow but its just one of those hard to tell colors when its posted online. I'll compare the color once it arrives and let you know!

Thanks, I'm curious about the actual color too.

 

[BeenBurned]

May I please have an authentication?

Item(s): lot of 3 - two Willis and one mercer (?) I'm not familiar with newer styles
Seller: shopats
Site: Ebay
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/353655224507

Comments: The creeds were not included in the listing but the seller emailed them to me
'Creed2' looks to be a taupe color yet the listing shows a saddleback (?) color so I have mixed feelings. Is it just lighting?

The bags are all fine.

The colors appear to be camel (Willis with silver hardware), British tan (Willis with brass) and I don't know the color of the Mercer satchel.

 

[Hyacinth]

May I please have an authentication?

Item(s): lot of 3 - two Willis and one mercer (?) I'm not familiar with newer styles
Seller: shopats
Site: Ebay
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/353655224507

Comments: The creeds were not included in the listing but the seller emailed them to me
'Creed2' looks to be a taupe color yet the listing shows a saddleback (?) color so I have mixed feelings. Is it just lighting?

As long as the two Willises you receive have exactly the same creeds and serial numbers as the photos you were sent, they're genuine.

I can't help with the Mercer, thanks, BB!

 

[Hoku44]

The bags are all fine.

The colors appear to be camel (Willis with silver hardware), British tan (Willis with brass) and I don't know the color of the Mercer satchel.

Thank you BeenBurned!

 

[Hoku44]

As long as the two Willises you receive have exactly the same creeds and serial numbers as the photos you were sent, they're genuine.

I can't help with the Mercer, thanks, BB!

I wasn't interested in the Mercer but I guess it's found a new loving home. I will absolutely check to make sure the creeds match when they arrive.

Thank you!

 

[Pursehoarder2025]

Hi! Can anyone help me with this bag please Thank you!

 

[madyvtg]

Genuine, from the early 1990s

Thank you so much!

 

[donafela]

Hello! New here. I tried to look through recent pages to see if this was listed, but didn't see it.

Item: Coach Vintage Court Bag Black Leather Crossbody Bag Satchel Early 90's 9870
Listing number: 255125793931
Seller and site where listed: newtopsales, ebay
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255125793931
Comments: Seller relisted it today because the listing ended. Description seems very detailed. I am new to this so don't know how to authenticate using the serial number, but it says #0690-902

Thank you for your time and knowledge.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi! Can anyone help me with this bag please Thank you!

Please read the READ ME post at the top of each page and include all the required information including the link where it's being sold if applicable, a full set of front and back photos, and measurements.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello! New here. I tried to look through recent pages to see if this was listed, but didn't see it.

Item: Coach Vintage Court Bag Black Leather Crossbody Bag Satchel Early 90's 9870
Listing number: 255125793931
Seller and site where listed: newtopsales, ebay
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/255125793931
Comments: Seller relisted it today because the listing ended. Description seems very detailed. I am new to this so don't know how to authenticate using the serial number, but it says #0690-902

Thank you for your time and knowledge.

First, welcome to tPF.

Nothing can be authenticated using a serial number. The ONLY thing that a number can indicate is a possible fake. Just because other bags may have the same number can NEVER prove that any of them are genuine. And bags made before 1994 will all have their own unique numbers, unless they're fake. Take all the "rules" you've ever found in other online so-called authenticity guides and throw them in the garbage.

This one is a genuine Court Bag, style 9870 and made in the early 1990s.

 

[Pursehoarder2025]

Please read the READ ME post at the top of each page and include all the required information including the link where it's being sold if applicable, a full set of front and back photos, and measurements.

I’m so sorry I was trying to take pictures at a thrift store and it was kinda awkward lol! It was cheap so I bought it…. Hopefully it’s real
It’s about 12x8
Serial number: 9407
Sorry for the dark spots on the back I was just lotioning it to try and remove some marks on it!

 

[jess246810]

Hello, can I please have this 9966 bag checked for authentication? Thank you!

Item:Pre-loved Coach Studio Legacy Purse 9966 Black Leather Crossbody Bag
Listing number: 265211934061
Seller and site where listed: manymanymonkeys / Ebay
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/265211934061
Comments: none