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 have another one for today. This creed has the “J8Y” prefix, but it’s not done in the Arial Narrow style font I’ve seen posted on this forum previously. I know the only absolute rule about vintage Coach is that there are no absolute rules.
What are your thoughts, please?


Item: Willis bag
Listing number: 137008073
Seller and site where listed
Link: http://shopgoodwill.com/item/137008073

Please DON'T apply the "No absolute Rules" Rule to fake serial numbers! When we say, or the Daria48 Fake Coach Serial Numbers List says without any more recent posted corrections in the Daria48 List part of the Salearea Guides thread here at tPF that a certain serial number or serial prefix is Always Fake, you would do well to believe it.

SaleArea guides

@Hyacinth I was just reading your excellent Italian coach guide above and I have a question. I am currently rehabbing a Gramercy Top Handle 7002 bag from 1999 (that you graciously authenticated for me) see below for one of the auction pictures. I am trying to figure out the color name for this...

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And just to get REALLY nit-picky, fake Coaches are NOT bound by Rules that apply to genuine Coaches!

And there ARE absolute rules -
COACH HANDBAGS, BACKPACKS, WALLETS AND BRIEFCASES WERE NEVER MADE IN KOREA.

Plus 3 or 4 others.

 

[madisonave5011]

Can you please post a photo of the BACK of the bag? There are several similar styles from the early 1990s and we need to see if there's a belt loop and how the strap attaches. Read the READ ME post st the top of each page for a list of the photo details needed, at the moment I only need a photo of the back. Thank you.

Here are photos of the back. Thank you

 

[Hyacinth]

Wondering the name / year?
I own this bag
Dimensions: 6inx5in
Difficult to photograph storypatch

Here are photos of the back. Thank you

That's a really HUGE help, thanks!

It's a genuine Everett Bag, style 9934. It was introduced late in 1993 so it could only have been made with the type of serial number it has in late 1993 or very early in 1994.

From the Holiday 1993 catalog:

 

[ConnieinSeattle]

I hope this bag is authentic, because I bought it and it's SO BEAUTIFUL. I mean, pristine. Like it was hardly used. Has two of the "Please register your new Coach - it's Important" cards in it, as well as a very cool illustrated 22 page booklet entitled "American Classics in Leather-Coach" published in 1992. https://shopgoodwill.com/item/136434347 M5M-9790

When I started my Coach collecting "thing," I thought some would be for me, some would be to share with friends/family, some would be for rehab & resale. This one's for me. Does have some what looks like mold spots on the front. I can fix that.

PS: If anyone would like me to scan and share the booklet, I can do that. Which forum thread would it go in? Or, is it already in here somewhere.

 

[madisonave5011]

That's a really HUGE help, thanks!

It's a genuine Everett Bag, style 9934. It was introduced late in 1993 so it could only have been made with the type of serial number it has in late 1993 or very early in 1994.

From the Holiday 1993 catalog:
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That’s the bag thank you!!

 

[JuneCleaverSemperFi]

Hi would you please authenticate this bag I purchased at the consignment shop? It's about 11.5" x 10" x 4" thank you

 

[Mizjewelz]

Hello there! Hope that I have all my ducks in a row.
I found this bag at an estate sale last week. Potentially my first pre-creed bag! Thanks so much for giving it a look.

Approximately 13”x9”x3”

 

[JuneCleaverSemperFi]

Would you please authenticate this bag I purchased at the estate sale? It's about 11.5" x 10" x 4"

 

[Hyacinth]

Would you please authenticate this bag I purchased at the estate sale? It's about 11.5" x 10" x 4"

Authentic Patricia's Legacy made in 1999

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello there! Hope that I have all my ducks in a row.
I found this bag at an estate sale last week. Potentially my first pre-creed bag! Thanks so much for giving it a look.

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Genuine, it looks like a Watermelon Satchel from the 1970s, style 9441, but I'm not an expert in pre-creed items. If I'm wrong I hope @whateve or someone else with her level of knowledge will correct me.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi would you please authenticate this bag I purchased at the consignment shop? It's about 11.5" x 10" x 4" thank you



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Genuine and from 1995

 

[Hyacinth]

I hope this bag is authentic, because I bought it and it's SO BEAUTIFUL. I mean, pristine. Like it was hardly used. Has two of the "Please register your new Coach - it's Important" cards in it, as well as a very cool illustrated 22 page booklet entitled "American Classics in Leather-Coach" published in 1992. https://shopgoodwill.com/item/136434347 M5M-9790

When I started my Coach collecting "thing," I thought some would be for me, some would be to share with friends/family, some would be for rehab & resale. This one's for me. Does have some what looks like mold spots on the front. I can fix that.

PS: If anyone would like me to scan and share the booklet, I can do that. Which forum thread would it go in? Or, is it already in here somewhere.

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It's a genuine City Bag from 1995.

I can't answer your questions about the booklet, it depends whether or not the information is already posted here. You can check at the Vintage Catalog Scans thread to see if any of it is new information.

Vintage Coach Catalogs

Here is a place to find entire vintage catalogs that been uploaded ;)

forum.purseblog.com

The Vintage Photos and Chat thread would be the place to ask.

 

[JuneCleaverSemperFi]

Hi would you please authenticate this adorable little guy I received from my aunt? It's about 9"x 11" x 4.25" thank you

 

[ConnieinSeattle]

It's a genuine City Bag from 1995.

I can't answer your questions about the booklet, it depends whether or not the information is already posted here. You can check at the Vintage Catalog Scans thread to see if any of it is new information.

Vintage Coach Catalogs

Here is a place to find entire vintage catalogs that been uploaded ;)

forum.purseblog.com

The Vintage Photos and Chat thread would be the place to ask.

Thank you!!! The bag had a "legit" feel to it. The booklet is more an advertising piece with the story of Coach rather than a catalog. I'll check the vintage photos and chat to see if it's already there.

 

[Vimsmum]

Hi, could I get an authentication on this bag? Thanks so much.

Item: Coach Vintage Crossbody
Listing number: 265431291200
Seller and site where listed wearforless_7. eBay
Link: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/265431291200
Comments: Could you also let me know the style if possible - could not find it in the catalogues