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

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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
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  • For bags with turnlock closures, show pictures of back of female side of turnlock
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Item: Butterfly Swagger 27
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: @candyhuang115 on Poshmark Canada
Link: https://poshmark.ca/listing/Coach-swagger-Butterfly-appliqque-sarchel-RARE-6279829181a36c4eedf3d59e
Comments: I think this style is from 2016(?) but I fell in love with the butterflies. However, I heard that swaggers are one of the most faked. Would love for your input and comments! Thanks as always :heart:

Edit: Judging from past authentication posts, I think this is okay, but just wanted to be sure!
 
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Can I possible have this sad looking bag looked at...think its ok myself but I always likevto be sure,.
link https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketp...men/bags-handbags/handbags/listing/3588227764
seller nstahlmann via TradeMe.
May I have the style name if possible....its right on the tip of my tongue.
thank you

It's a genuine Saddle Pouch, style number 9585. If the seller's measurements are correct, this would probably be the Large. It would have been made in the early to mid 1980s.

Here's a page from a 1981 catalog showing all 3 sizes, click on the thumbnail:

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Help with this Willis please?

Vintage Willis
Mercari, seller: minicat

link: https://merc.li/ebDFDGSvb


It's probably genuine but definitely NOT VINTAGE. The year code is for 2013 which means it has 11 years to go before it can be described as "vintage". It's one of several lines of China-made re-re-issues and very likely won't have the same kind of high-quality leather as the original TRUE vintage Willises. In fact, it's so recent that it was made after Coach stopped including the country of origin in the creed.

I REALLY wish sellers would learn how to read Coach's date codes. :annoyed:
 
It's probably genuine but definitely NOT VINTAGE. The year code is for 2013 which means it has 11 years to go before it can be described as "vintage". It's one of several lines of China-made re-re-issues and very likely won't have the same kind of high-quality leather as the original TRUE vintage Willises. In fact, it's so recent that it was made after Coach stopped including the country of origin in the creed.

I REALLY wish sellers would learn how to read Coach's date codes. :annoyed:
Thank you! I new it was more recent because of the creed, but I didn’t know how recent, I don’t know how to read date codes
 
Thank you! I new it was more recent because of the creed, but I didn’t know how recent, I don’t know how to read date codes


Then might I recommend reading the six Salearea Coach Guides posted and Pinned to the top of each page in this "Authenticate This..." thread? You'll learn not just how to read date codes, but a lot more as well. The Guides were last updated in 2018 and updates and corrections are included in the more recent posts in that thread which, as an added bonus, also includes the Daria48 Fake Coach numbers List a bit farther on.


Don't worry if some of the links in the first 13 posts don't work, Ebay deleted all their member guides in 2018 so all those links are as dead as the Dodo.
 
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Authenticators, would you please authenticate this bag? I got too excited and already bought it so hopefully I didn’t make a mistake.
Item: 1998 Rambler?
Seller and site where listed: Trudy Seabrook - Mercari
Link: https://merc.li/mghyuc5eb
Comments: I searched by the serial number in this thread and found something but the pics were gone so I wasn’t sure it was the same bag. The seller name wasn’t found in the thread. Thank you in advance.
 
Authenticators, would you please authenticate this bag? I got too excited and already bought it so hopefully I didn’t make a mistake.
Item: 1998 Rambler?
Seller and site where listed: Trudy Seabrook - Mercari
Link: https://merc.li/mghyuc5eb
Comments: I searched by the serial number in this thread and found something but the pics were gone so I wasn’t sure it was the same bag. The seller name wasn’t found in the thread. Thank you in advance.


Genuine, the correct name is "Rambler's Legacy". "Rambler" is a different, older and larger style with a different style number.

Were you looking for the same bag and seller by searching for the serial number? HUNDREDS of Rambler's Legacy bags from 1998 can have the same number. Don't ever use Google as a way of determining if a "Coach" is genuine.
 
Genuine, the correct name is "Rambler's Legacy". "Rambler" is a different, older and larger style with a different style number.

Were you looking for the same bag and seller by searching for the serial number? HUNDREDS of Rambler's Legacy bags from 1998 can have the same number. Don't ever use Google as a way of determining if a "Coach" is genuine.
Thank you for the information! I wasn’t searching google, I was searching in this authentication thread. I didn’t want to bug you guys if someone else had posted about it already. Sorry for the confusion.
 
Item: Butterfly Swagger 27
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: @candyhuang115 on Poshmark Canada
Link: https://poshmark.ca/listing/Coach-swagger-Butterfly-appliqque-sarchel-RARE-6279829181a36c4eedf3d59e
Comments: I think this style is from 2016(?) but I fell in love with the butterflies. However, I heard that swaggers are one of the most faked. Would love for your input and comments! Thanks as always :heart:

Edit: Judging from past authentication posts, I think this is okay, but just wanted to be sure!

Hoping to have the above authenticated and this one I spotted on Poshmark too!

Item: Devon Shoulder Bag
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: @ alexandriam29 on Poshmark Canada
Link: https://poshmark.ca/listing/Vintage-Leather-Coach-Crossbody-Bag-6275b826bb59379cd23a0199
Comments: I feel kind of iffy because the L is lower than the rest of the letters. Just curious, thank you!
 
Hoping to have the above authenticated and this one I spotted on Poshmark too!

Item: Devon Shoulder Bag
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: @ alexandriam29 on Poshmark Canada
Link: https://poshmark.ca/listing/Vintage-Leather-Coach-Crossbody-Bag-6275b826bb59379cd23a0199
Comments: I feel kind of iffy because the L is lower than the rest of the letters. Just curious, thank you!


The bag itself is genuine and was made in 1996. But the strap, which has a broken clip anyway, was NOT made by Coach and will have to be replaced anyway, it's already been replaced at least once. The details of the serial number are correct for that year and plant code.
 
Would you please authenticate this bag I purchased at the estate sale? It's about 11.5" x 10" x 4"
Thanks
 

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