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
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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.

Thank you and be safe!

 

[whateve]

Thanks so much. Any idea of it’s age?

Probably early 70s.

 

[lilirose3]

Hi Authenticators,
Can I get this authenticated? Thanks in advance.
Item: Coach Bucket bag
Listing number: NA
Seller and site where listed: oldarmy44@carousell
Link:https://carousell.app.link/hO1EixVg2qb
Comments: Serial is 0598-102. Made in The United States. I would appreciate it if you can let me know the name of the bag and what year approx was this bag made. I have seen a few variations of this bag. Some with detachable straps, some has no line in the middle of the pocket and some bags has knotted string etc.

 

[lilchestnut]

Unfortunately, it's fake.

And nothing is "too old" to be fake!

Thank you! Your reasoning for stating it's a fake - is that based solely on the serial number starting with an "R" or are you able to share any other identifiable indications from these photos?

 

[Hyacinth]

Thank you! Your reasoning for stating it's a fake - is that based solely on the serial number starting with an "R" or are you able to share any other identifiable indications from these photos?

The R for the month code is all the proof we need. I'm going from memory but I believe there was also a problem with the turnlock. I took another look and the leather texture is also wrong. And there's also a problem with the serial number stamping.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi Authenticators,
Can I get this authenticated? Thanks in advance.
Item: Coach Bucket bag
Listing number: NA
Seller and site where listed: oldarmy44@carousell
Link:https://carousell.app.link/hO1EixVg2qb
Comments: Serial is 0598-102. Made in The United States. I would appreciate it if you can let me know the name of the bag and what year approx was this bag made. I have seen a few variations of this bag. Some with detachable straps, some has no line in the middle of the pocket and some bags has knotted string etc.

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Genuine Pocket Drawstring, style number 4021, from the Lightweight line and made in the early 1990s.

 

[lilirose3]

Genuine Pocket Drawstring, style number 4021, from the Lightweight line and made in the early 1990s.

Thank you so much Hyacinth

 

[katev]

Welcome back @whateve. I would appreciate it if you could have a look. I found it a few weeks back at a local vintage shop. You were away, then I was away…. It’s approximately 11”x 10”x3/4” Thanks in advance.

Authentic in my opinion. Looks like a shoulder frame pouch.

Thanks so much. Any idea of it’s age?

Probably early 70s.

The picture isn't great but I found this in the links that Matthew recently provided and it appears that originally the name was simply "Frame Pouch" and the style number is 9140 - nice find!

 

[Birdie13]

The picture isn't great but I found this in the links that Matthew recently provided and it appears that originally the name was simply "Frame Pouch" and the style number is 9140 - nice find!

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Thank you! All of this catalogue info is amazing. Too bad about the resolution though. They look like scans of photocopies.

 

[katev]

Thank you! All of this catalogue info is amazing. Too bad about the resolution though. They look like scans of photocopies.

I'm sure that's correct, my understanding is that they are part of the evidence presented for a Coach trademark infringement lawsuit. I think they are included to prove that the Coach name has been around for a long time but I could be wrong - I'm not a lawyer - I'm just a Coachie!

 

[vintagecoachuk]

Please may I have the following bag authenticated. Thank you so much


Item: soho bucket
Listing number: doesn’t have one
Seller and site where listed: Libbybeaty123
Link: https://www.vinted.co.uk/men/access...handbags/1974446016-vintage-coach-leather-bag
Comments: really hope this is real.

thank you again

 

[ConnieinSeattle]

The picture isn't great but I found this in the links that Matthew recently provided and it appears that originally the name was simply "Frame Pouch" and the style number is 9140 - nice find!

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I have the same bag but with a teenie tiny metal Coach tag rather than an embossed cartouche (did I spell that right) behind the closure balls. Whateve was kind enough to authenticate earlier. Is mine also from the early 70's, or perhaps earlier? If we're veering into inappropriate chat for the authenticate forum, please say so, and I'll move my question to the vintage Coach chat forum.

 

[barbie3000]

Item: Coach (can’t find model name)
Bought on Poshmark Canada, seller springpurge

I didn’t do my due diligence with this bag! Very unlike me; don’t know what I was thinking

i have literally turned the bag inside out and can find no white tag anywhere — nothing inside interior pocket or anywhere else on lining.

measures 15”x 12”

I loathe knock-offs on principle, so if this is one (as I suspect), I would neither carry it or resell it.

 

[whateve]

The picture isn't great but I found this in the links that Matthew recently provided and it appears that originally the name was simply "Frame Pouch" and the style number is 9140 - nice find!

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Thank you! All of this catalogue info is amazing. Too bad about the resolution though. They look like scans of photocopies.

They may have changed the name. I have this catalog picture that includes the word shoulder. I don't what year either of these catalogs are from.

 

[whateve]

I have the same bag but with a teenie tiny metal Coach tag rather than an embossed cartouche (did I spell that right) behind the closure balls. Whateve was kind enough to authenticate earlier. Is mine also from the early 70's, or perhaps earlier? If we're veering into inappropriate chat for the authenticate forum, please say so, and I'll move my question to the vintage Coach chat forum.

I believe the metal tag predated the embossed cartouche. The black metal tag was the last of the metal tags to be used. A lot of it is conjecture rather than absolute fact. I may also base dates on when I know a style was being sold. Yours could be very late 60s or early 70s.

 

[whateve]

Item: Coach (can’t find model name)
Bought on Poshmark Canada, seller springpurge

I didn’t do my due diligence with this bag! Very unlike me; don’t know what I was thinking

i have literally turned the bag inside out and can find no white tag anywhere — nothing inside interior pocket or anywhere else on lining.

measures 15”x 12”

I loathe knock-offs on principle, so if this is one (as I suspect), I would neither carry it or resell it.

Really, really bad fake. There is almost nothing right about it. Please ask for a refund. You shouldn't have had to pay for something like that.