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!

 

[FrenchieBull]

Good afternoon, everyone. I’m looking for info regarding creed parches, specifically. I recently purchased a vintage bag in an online auction. It looked good in the photos, and with the non-style serial number, I didn’t have a reference to match it to an authentic bag. But when I received it, the poor quality/feel of leather easily gave it away as a fake. I noticed the Creed (top left) was worded differently than the online resources I’ve been looking at, and now I’m questioning the authenticity of 2 other bags I have with the same phrasing (top right, bottom left). I’ve also noticed this specific phrasing on bags for sale through FB, Poshmark, eBay, and the like. Is this creed in specific at all suspect?

Thank you in advance for any information you can tell me on this!

 

[BeenBurned]

Helen's legacy, if I'm remembering correctly. The style number was correct but the font was not. I used to have the authentic version of it. It was a pretty apple green.

I'm surprised they removed it so quickly!

They (Etsy) didn't remove it. The seller ended the listing when contacted and told it wasn't authentic and why.

 

[BeenBurned]

Good afternoon, everyone. I’m looking for info regarding creed parches, specifically. I recently purchased a vintage bag in an online auction. It looked good in the photos, and with the non-style serial number, I didn’t have a reference to match it to an authentic bag. But when I received it, the poor quality/feel of leather easily gave it away as a fake. I noticed the Creed (top left) was worded differently than the online resources I’ve been looking at, and now I’m questioning the authenticity of 2 other bags I have with the same phrasing (top right, bottom left). I’ve also noticed this specific phrasing on bags for sale through FB, Poshmark, eBay, and the like. Is this creed in specific at all suspect?

Thank you in advance for any information you can tell me on this!

Without seeing more of the bags, just creed pictures aren't a good way to determine authenticity.

I'm not sure which creed it is that you think "easily gave it away as a fake" but I don't see any problems in any of the creeds.

If you post pictures of the bags to which they're attached, we can confirm authenticity.

 

[Hyacinth]

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[Hyacinth]

Good afternoon, everyone. I’m looking for info regarding creed parches, specifically. I recently purchased a vintage bag in an online auction. It looked good in the photos, and with the non-style serial number, I didn’t have a reference to match it to an authentic bag. But when I received it, the poor quality/feel of leather easily gave it away as a fake. I noticed the Creed (top left) was worded differently than the online resources I’ve been looking at, and now I’m questioning the authenticity of 2 other bags I have with the same phrasing (top right, bottom left). I’ve also noticed this specific phrasing on bags for sale through FB, Poshmark, eBay, and the like. Is this creed in specific at all suspect?

Thank you in advance for any information you can tell me on this!

Whatever "online resources" you're referring to, you're either getting bad information, analyzing it incorrectly, or a combination of both.

Nothing can be positively authenticated with JUST a serial number photo. Please follow the instructions in the IMPORTANT - READ ME posts at the top of each page.

And I hope that somewhere in this apparent misinformation you've found, you read that Coach bags after a certain year were made in more than one plant, and the logical conclusion would be that they used different serial number stamps.

Before you waste your time reading bad information, I suggest you read some ACCURATE information instead. Read the first 13 posts just as background since most of the links are old and don't work, but pay careful attention to the rest:

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

Then post the required photos and information listed in the READ ME post. Separate posts will be fine.

 

[KitOHara]

Hi Authenticators,

Item: Rambler’s Legacy
Where purchased or how obtained: Local consignment
Comments: Looks like May 2000?

Thank you very much for all of your help!

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi Authenticators,

Item: Rambler’s Legacy
Where purchased or how obtained: Local consignment
Comments: Looks like May 2000?

Thank you very much for all of your help!

Genuine. May 2000 is the correct date.

 

[NBALLY8006]

Hi there...help on this one please

Vintage Coach Brown Crossbody Leather Bag Purse Leather | eBay

Vintage Coach Brown Crossbody Leather Bag Purse Leather.

www.ebay.com

seller -Vintish_thrifts

 

[BeenBurned]

Hi there...help on this one please

Vintage Coach Brown Crossbody Leather Bag Purse Leather | eBay

Vintage Coach Brown Crossbody Leather Bag Purse Leather.

www.ebay.com

seller -Vintish_thrifts

The bag is authentic. The hangtag is fake.

 

[ciaodenny]

Hello authenticators was wondering if these two bags are real. Purchased from savers.
Bag 1
Purchased at savers
Measures approx. 9.5x7.5x4

 

[ciaodenny]

Bag2
Purchased at savers
Bag measures 9"x 5" x2

 

[tanyarvpa]

It's authentic, made in 2000. I think it's called some type of Girlie bag, possibly with paisley in the name.

This is Coach's stock image:
View attachment 5217709

ETA: It's called Girlie paisley perforated hobo.

Thanks so much, definitely a girlie bag! I love it!

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello authenticators was wondering if these two bags are real. Purchased from savers.
Bag 1
Purchased at savers
Measures approx. 9.5x7.5x4

Bag2
Purchased at savers
Bag measures 9"x 5" x2

Genuine Court Bag, 1999

Genuine Dinky (?) early to mid 1980s

 

[CoffeeAndJeans]

Hello authenticators could you please take a look at these two bags? Many thanks

Item: vintage Coach city bag
Link: https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m12792299008/
Seller/Site: jaolinder / Mercari


Item: vintage Coach city bag
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144233841409?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
Seller: tk1717 / Ebay

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello authenticators could you please take a look at these two bags? Many thanks

Item: vintage Coach city bag
Link: https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m12792299008/
Seller/Site: jaolinder / Mercari


Item: vintage Coach city bag
Link: https://www.ebay.com/itm/144233841409?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649
Seller: tk1717 / Ebay

Both are genuine, the first one probably made in the mid-1980s, the second from the early 1990s