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!

 

[lburrhead84]

Looks good.

Thank you! Yay!

 

[SAMcCurdy]

Authentic Curtis flap made in 1995.

Thank you so much!

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello all!
Could somebody please tell me if this is an authentic vintage coach purse?

COACH CLASSIC PENNY CROSSBODY SHOULDER RED LEATHER PURSE 17994 AUTHENTIC | eBay

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It's a genuine Coach, but it's NOT vintage. The term "vintage" means 20 years old or older, and this is a recent re-make of an older style. It was made in 2011 and has 9 years to go before it can be called vintage. It doesn't even have a classic style name from the vintage period and I don't believe it was ever called a Penny, Coach just called the remake a Classic Leather Shoulder Purse, and Net-a-Porter called it a Small Leather Shoulder Purse when they introduced it on their site. They couldn't even decide on a name.

 

[lilirose3]

Hi Authenticators, Can I have these 2 bags authenticated? Thank you

Item 1 : Coach Large Cream Bag
Item 2 : Coach Red Bag
Where purchased or how obtained : Preloved Store
Comments: I purchased these 2 from a store that sell preloved bags from Japan. The Red Bag came with a Coach Booklet and a red metal hangtag.
The cream bag creed reads : B0D-9406
The red bag creed reads : I0J-6095. Is I a valid month?

 

[Kitana0808]

Hello Authenticators. I have these vintage bags I found at a local thrift. The red small crossbody serial # C5D-9925, the brown crossbody 584-5818 (could you tell me the nam of this one) and the green one is G4C-9790. Thank you again for your time!

 

[BeenBurned]

Hi Authenticators, I got this purse from Poshmark, but I find out that its creed is not in the center, and the font doesn't look right. Could you help me confirm that this purse is not authentic?

Many thanks!

Item: coach casino bag
Seller and site where listed: poshmark @ marylyn35
Link:https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintage-Coach-casino-bag-622139f9e97e48d2c490c5c1


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It's fake. Besides the bad creed font, there shouldn't be any hardware from the handle visible on the inside of the bag.

It's not marylyn35's only fake but this so typical of Poshmark. This is where so many sellers go to unload their fakes.

Coach shoulder bag

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and

Vintage coach crossbody 9817

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and

Vintage coach day back

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BEWARE.

BTW, these are such obvious fakes that had marylyn35 done the slightest research, she would have recognized them as such!

 

[BeenBurned]

Hello Authenticators. I have these vintage bags I found at a local thrift. The red small crossbody serial # C5D-9925, the brown crossbody 584-5818 (could you tell me the nam of this one) and the green one is G4C-9790. Thank you again for your time!

All are fine.

 

[BeenBurned]

Hi Authenticators, Can I have these 2 bags authenticated? Thank you

Item 1 : Coach Large Cream Bag
Item 2 : Coach Red Bag
Where purchased or how obtained : Preloved Store
Comments: I purchased these 2 from a store that sell preloved bags from Japan. The Red Bag came with a Coach Booklet and a red metal hangtag.
The cream bag creed reads : B0D-9406
The red bag creed reads : I0J-6095. Is I a valid month?

Both are authentic.

In this case, I is a legitimate mistake for the bag made in September, 2000.

 

[Kitana0808]

All are fine.

Any idea the name of the brown one 584-5818..I could not find it online

 

[lilirose3]

Both are authentic.

In this case, I is a legitimate mistake for the bag made in September, 2000.

Thank you very much BeenBurned

 

[Ladyluvvy]

Used Authenticated Vintage Coach Brown Leather Crossbody Purse C4M-9790

shopgoodwill.com

authentication request
is M a valid month code?
are the wording in the creed (early) and the structure of the serial number from same era??

 

[amber1109]

It's fake. Besides the bad creed font, there shouldn't be any hardware from the handle visible on the inside of the bag.

Got it! Thank you so much for verifying!

 

[Hyacinth]

Used Authenticated Vintage Coach Brown Leather Crossbody Purse C4M-9790

shopgoodwill.com

authentication request
is M a valid month code?
are the wording in the creed (early) and the structure of the serial number from same era??

There are a ton of formatting mistakes in the early years of the alpha-numeric serial numbers which started in 1994, many of them have the digits in the serial prefix partly or completely rearranged. This one might have been meant to be M4C- so first you have to figure out if they're in the correct order.

"M" was a vaild month code but in the early days even INvalid codes like "N" could sometimes slip in. Valid codes by themselves can't prove that an item is authentic.

If I haven't already suggested that you read the six Salearea Guides posted and Pinned to the top of every page here in the Authenticate forum, I'm going to suggest it now. Reading them more than once, every month or so, is a very good idea. I also suggest reading the Daria48 Fake Coach Serial Numbers List right after them.

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...

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The bag is a genuine City Bag made in 1994.

 

[BeenBurned]

nm

 

[Hyacinth]

Any idea the name of the brown one 584-5818..I could not find it online

There aren't enough photos to identify it. We need measurements, and photos of the front with the flap closed and open showing any pockets under the flap AND whether it was flat or gusseted, whether the back of the bag has a slip pocket or not, and a photo of the inside showing the construction of any inside pockets and whether they were open or zipped. A photo of the outside base showing any center or corner seams would also help.