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!

 

[Crystal2022]

My first try, I hope I won't mess this up.

Item: Coach Binocular
Listing number: Not found
Site: Etsy link
Seller: vintagecoach4less

Comments: Found the catalog section (thanks sallellen) and this bag caught my eye on a 90s one, the color burgundy was available at the time and I searched for one, found this purple instead in Etsy. Not sure the condition being dyed is worth that much, but more important is it real? Seller has a lot of good ratings, but everyone makes mistakes and I do not want my first vintage buy to be one. Thank you for your time and help.

 

[momoyb]

Back with another one and thank you so much in advance!

Vintage Coach Crossbody Shoulder Neutral Black Equestrian Saddle Bag Purse
eBay
165503739543
@flippingawesome
Vintage Coach Crossbody Shoulder Neutral Black Equestrian Saddle Bag Purse

Asked for a better pic of the creed, which was provided

 

[Hyacinth]

Back with another one and thank you so much in advance!

Vintage Coach Crossbody Shoulder Neutral Black Equestrian Saddle Bag Purse
eBay
165503739543
@flippingawesome
Vintage Coach Crossbody Shoulder Neutral Black Equestrian Saddle Bag Purse

Asked for a better pic of the creed, which was provided

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Genuine Scout Bag, style 9890 and made in the early 1990s
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From the Holiday 1991 catalog, click on the thumbnail to enlarge:

 

[Hyacinth]

Thank you @Hyacinth for the authentication and the catalog color chart. I often wonder how Coach determined what color names to assign to their bags. Many are so similar in color or shade.

That's just one reason why I won't try to guess colors on vintage bags just from a few photos. The tan and brown shades especially can be almost impossible to tell apart especially if they haven't been washed or conditioned. And colors can look very different on a computer or camera than they do to the human eye.

 

[ChrisV]

Good Afternoon Authenticator! Happy Friday!

Please let me know if this one is authentic, also what color would say that it is?

Item: Vintage 70s -90s style COACH light brown leather shoulder bag Plain snap closure crossbody
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: HouseofMarrow, Etsy
Link: https://www.etsy.com/listing/115049...=sr_gallery-2-20&frs=1&organic_search_click=1

Thank you so much in advance!
C

 

[JuneCleaverSemperFi]

Would you please authenticate this adorable little guy I received from a family member? It's about 3.5" x 2.5"
Thank you

 

[JuneCleaverSemperFi]

Would you please authenticate this adorable little guy I received from a family member? It's about 3.5" x 2.5"
Thank you

 

[momoyb]

Genuine Scout Bag, style 9890 and made in the early 1990s
.

From the Holiday 1991 catalog, click on the thumbnail to enlarge:

View attachment 5417851

Thank you! It's kinda beat up, but I dig it. Why does the creed not say 9890? I keep trying to look up style numbers and some I just can't find to save my life

 

[DoraLuz]

FOR ITEMS LISTED ONLINE:
Item:Coach Brown Crescent
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: @cristinamoda on Poshmark
Link:https://posh.mk/XXtvh4Mizqb
Comments: Hello and good evening. I would like to see if you could help in authenticating. I am also particularly curious about the hang tag. I’ve encountered several hang tags now that only have the Coach print on one side and suede on the other. Was this intentional by Coach? Or have the hang tags lost their other side?
Thank you again
Dora

 

[Hyacinth]

FOR ITEMS LISTED ONLINE:
Item:Coach Brown Crescent
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: @cristinamoda on Poshmark
Link:https://posh.mk/XXtvh4Mizqb
Comments: Hello and good evening. I would like to see if you could help in authenticating. I am also particularly curious about the hang tag. I’ve encountered several hang tags now that only have the Coach print on one side and suede on the other. Was this intentional by Coach? Or have the hang tags lost their other side?
Thank you again
Dora

Poshmark seems to be having server problems so authentication may have to wait a while.

As for hangtags, Coach has made several different configurations, and the fakes makers have copied most, if not all of them. So please don't EVER try to figure out authenticity from whatever form the hangtag happens to take, they should never be used that way. Many older bags no longer have the original hangtags anyway.

 

[Hyacinth]

Thank you! It's kinda beat up, but I dig it. Why does the creed not say 9890? I keep trying to look up style numbers and some I just can't find to save my life

Read the six Salearea Coach Guides, the link is pinned to the top of every Authenticate This Coach thread that has an index. Read the Daria48 Fake Numbers list that's part of the same thread too. One of the reasons I wrote the Guides was so we don't have to answer the same questions over and over and over again, all the answers are in one place. The first 13 posts are mostly background and the links probably aren't working.

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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[Hyacinth]

Would you please authenticate this adorable little guy I received from a family member? It's about 3.5" x 2.5"
Thank you

Genuine City Bag keyfob made at various times in the mid 1990s

 

[Hyacinth]

FOR ITEMS LISTED ONLINE:
Item:Coach Brown Crescent
Listing number:
Seller and site where listed: @cristinamoda on Poshmark
Link:https://posh.mk/XXtvh4Mizqb
Comments: Hello and good evening. I would like to see if you could help in authenticating. I am also particularly curious about the hang tag. I’ve encountered several hang tags now that only have the Coach print on one side and suede on the other. Was this intentional by Coach? Or have the hang tags lost their other side?
Thank you again
Dora

Poshmark seems to be having server problems so authentication may have to wait a while.

As for hangtags, Coach has made several different configurations, and the fakes makers have copied most, if not all of them. So please don't EVER try to figure out authenticity from whatever form the hangtag happens to take, they should never be used that way. Many older bags no longer have the original hangtags anyway.

Some of Poshmark's photos don't open for me. If you can copy the largest available version of the creed and serial number photo(s) from the listing that clearly show the serial number and add it to this post using "REPLY", I'll take another look. Thanks.

 

[DoraLuz]

Some of Poshmark's photos don't open for me. If you can copy the largest available version of the creed and serial number photo(s) from the listing that clearly show the serial number and add it to this post using "REPLY", I'll take another look. Thanks.

Here are here photos listed.
thanks you @Hyacinth

 

[Hyacinth]

Here are here photos listed.
thanks you @Hyacinth

Thank you very much!

Genuine Crescent Bag, and probably made in the late 1980s.

And just a bit more on hangtags - many forum members here and elsewhere have spent a lot of time trying to figure them out and assign dates to certain configurations. But as I said, even if the details are correct for a certain time period, you can almost never be completely sure that the tag is original to that exact bag, and some of the fakes are pretty close.

With parts that are easily changeable or removeable, we've learned to not depend on them when figuring out authenticity. There are dozens if not hundreds of posts here at tPF in the Vintage Photos thread, and some of the experts there are much more experienced and qualified to give opinions on hangtags and all their variations than I. If you're still interested in those details when you receive the bag, you can try asking at the Vintage Photos And Chat thread in the main Coach forum, Coach Clubhouse sub-forum:

Vintage Coach Photos & Chat

Since I recently acquired some older coach, not just older in age, but ones that are more throw-back to the classic styles, lines and designs I figured a thread to post ALL of our pictures would be right up our alley. We've had quite a few threads pop up of recently that include rehabbing of...

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