Authenticate This COACH - **see first post for format**

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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:
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    Listing number:
    Seller and site where listed
    Link:
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  • FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Where purchased or how obtained
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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.
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#70,876
Dear authenticators,
Item: I'm not sure if this is a penny pocket - I'm thinking it is from the mid to late 70's.
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: poshmark
Link: https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintag...n-Lock-Crossbody-Bag-622e2b7e446e598686b0e238
Comments: no open back pocket. I'm confused by the corners at the bottom of the bag since they are stitched and have that puckered effect, but everything else looks and feels authentic to me, but I'm not positive since this is my first 70s bag acquisition (at least based on what I think it is!). Strap is not adjustable.

Thank you so much!
 
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Clicky said:
Dear authenticators,
Item: I'm not sure if this is a penny pocket - I'm thinking it is from the mid to late 70's.
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: poshmark
Link: https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintag...n-Lock-Crossbody-Bag-622e2b7e446e598686b0e238
Comments: no open back pocket. I'm confused by the corners at the bottom of the bag since they are stitched and have that puckered effect, but everything else looks and feels authentic to me, but I'm not positive since this is my first 70s bag acquisition (at least based on what I think it is!). Strap is not adjustable.

Thank you so much!
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There is no such thing as a penny pocket. This is an authentic convertible clutch. It was made in the late 70s or 80s. These normally came with a strap too short for crossbody but a crossbody strap could be substituted.
 
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#70,882
Good afternoon dear authenticators! A request to authenticate please. Thank you!!!

Item: 9136 Legacy (hobo?)
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 6" height, 9" width, 3" depth
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#70,883
Hyacinth said:
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.
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Thank you Hyacinth. I appreciate your time. I have read and will reread.
 
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