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!

 

[shesays]

Hello authenticators, I am here with another bag.

Item: Vintage Coach J8P-9017 Abbie Mini Crossbody Brown Leather Purse w/ COA
Listing Number: 149552611
Seller and site where listed: Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania
Link: https://shopgoodwill.com/item/149552611
Comments: I am suspicious that it may be fake but wanted to be sure the J8 kind of threw a red flag, not sure, your help is most appreciated. Such a pretty bag too.

 

[Hyacinth]

Dear Authenticators,

I have a “navy” Legacy Small Flap which I am very suspicious of and would like your opinion. I want to list it for sale but the more I look at it, the more doubtful I become. The color is not a really dark navy, some of the hardware looks a bit wrong - for example the Legacy buckles are stamped “solid brass” - and it feels wrong. The measurements are approximately 8” x 7” x 4”. I think the font of the serial number may also be suspect. Here are some photo - let me know if you need additional ones.

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It's fake, sorry, the serial number font, indented turnlock, "solid brass" on the hardware, are ALL wrong.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello authenticators, I am here with another bag.

Item: Vintage Coach J8P-9017 Abbie Mini Crossbody Brown Leather Purse w/ COA
Listing Number: 149552611
Seller and site where listed: Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania
Link: https://shopgoodwill.com/item/149552611
Comments: I am suspicious that it may be fake but wanted to be sure the J8 kind of threw a red flag, not sure, your help is most appreciated. Such a pretty bag too.

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It's a genuine Abbie Zip from 1998

 

[VintageEnthusiast]

It's fake, sorry, the serial number font, indented turnlock, "solid brass" on the hardware, are ALL wrong.

Thought so, thanks for confirming my suspicions - this one goes in the trash. It can’t even go to goodwill.

 

[shesays]

It's a genuine Abbie Zip from 1998

Oh, thank you so much! So happy to read the good news.

 

[llbbsspp]

Hi I'm new to the forum and we don't have an official coach store here so we aren't able to authenticate these directly there, hoping you guys could help

Item: Preloved Coach Kristin Black Leather Satchel convertible bag
Listing number: 1161270387
Seller and site where listed: carousell.ph (Prinsesa Dianne)
Link: link
Comments: No mentions of it being authentic/original at all, but the model is Kristin

Spoiler: pics with measurements and inner pockets

Thank you so much and please take your time, let me know if I should ask some more info/pics from the seller

 

[BeenBurned]

Item: Klare Crossbody With Daisy Embroidery
Listing number: -
Link: https://shopee.co.id/-READY-COACH-K...03&xptdk=dd81261f-e14e-4e54-b582-9b4385ca2703
Comments: Hello I'm new here. I've been eyeing this daisy purse for some time and couldn't find it on COACH web because it is sold out. And now someone on Shoppe sells it at a crazy price (around $65). Is it authentic? It looks shady tho'. Wish someone could help, thanks in advance.

The pictures in the listing aren't adequate for authentication but I'm not at all comfortable with that bag, that listing or that site.

The only sites I've found with the style are Asian sites known for selling fakes, among them, DH Gate's listing for the same style with the "Coach" logo photoshopped out of the pictures and the title listed as "Coech" as a way to stay under the radar.

Sorry I can't be more optimistic.

 

[BeenBurned]

Hi I'm new to the forum and we don't have an official coach store here so we aren't able to authenticate these directly there, hoping you guys could help

Item: Preloved Coach Kristin Black Leather Satchel convertible bag
Listing number: 1161270387
Seller and site where listed: carousell.ph (Prinsesa Dianne)
Link: link
Comments: No mentions of it being authentic/original at all, but the model is Kristin

Spoiler: pics with measurements and inner pockets

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Thank you so much and please take your time, let me know if I should ask some more info/pics from the seller

If your pictures are the bag you received, the bag is authentic.

I don't recommend going to or calling Coach stores to "authenticate." They aren't trained to authentic and in fact, are prohibited by company policy from authenticated. Too often, when they break company rules and do authenticate, they get it wrong. And phone authentications are even more useless. A serial number can't prove authenticity of an item.

 

[llbbsspp]

If your pictures are the bag you received, the bag is authentic.

I don't recommend going to or calling Coach stores to "authenticate." They aren't trained to authentic and in fact, are prohibited by company policy from authenticated. Too often, when they break company rules and do authenticate, they get it wrong. And phone authentications are even more useless. A serial number can't prove authenticity of an item.

Hi, thanks so much for this! Will take note of that too

 

[llbbsspp]

I have another one here if anyone's willing to check this out. Sorry, couldn't send this one together with the past bag since I was waiting on this seller's clearer pic of the creed. Thank you so much!

Item: Coach leather two way bag

Listing number: 1168779999
Seller and site where listed: carousell.ph (ronirivera)
Link: link
Comments: Mentioned that it's authentic and brought from the US though I don't know what's the model called (can someone help identify?). Also one thing to note is that seller claims there was a care card but unfortunately the bag was accidentally washed with it inside, which destroyed the care card

Spoiler: pics with measurements and inner pockets + clearer pic of creed with serial

 

[ConnieinSeattle]

Vintage leather black coach legacy Stewardess Bag | eBay

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Stewardess Bag
Ebay, seller: Christsangel

The creed says it's a created material, not leather?? It looks like a stewardess bag, but this creed? Please and thank you for an opinion. I'm not purchasing this, but I really want to understand more about how to tell the fakes. Could it be a legitimate bag and they stamped the wrong bag's creed on there?

 

[bankermtg]

Hello,

Please authenticate this Coach Palm Organizer Case which I purchased from my local Goodwill. The measurements are 7" H 7" L and about 1.5" D. Thank you.

 

[BeenBurned]

Vintage leather black coach legacy Stewardess Bag | eBay

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage leather black coach legacy Stewardess Bag at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!

www.ebay.com

Stewardess Bag
Ebay, seller: Christsangel

The creed says it's a created material, not leather?? It looks like a stewardess bag, but this creed? Please and thank you for an opinion. I'm not purchasing this, but I really want to understand more about how to tell the fakes. Could it be a legitimate bag and they stamped the wrong bag's creed on there?

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It's fine.

I have a number of various examples of legitimate mistakes (authentic items) from the US "X" plant.

In fact, here's another creed with the same mistake on the same style bag.


Here's another creed from a leather bag with the same "custom developed material" description. Notice this was also has a mistake in the month code with the "M" done with an upside-down "W."




And this picture shows 2 examples of 2000 US X-plant creeds with "e" missing from weather and one with a scrambled prefix.

 

[ConnieinSeattle]

It's fine.

I have a number of various examples of legitimate mistakes (authentic items) from the US "X" plant.

In fact, here's another creed with the same mistake on the same style bag.
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Here's another creed from a leather bag with the same "custom developed material" description. Notice this was also has a mistake in the month code with the "M" done with an upside-down "W."

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And this picture shows 2 examples of 2000 US X-plant creeds with "e" missing from weather and one with a scrambled prefix.

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Thank you for the comments/lesson!!

 

[BeenBurned]

Hello,

Please authenticate this Coach Palm Organizer Case which I purchased from my local Goodwill. The measurements are 7" H 7" L and about 1.5" D. Thank you.

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It looks fine. It's a PDA case made when Palm Pilots were the "thing" and the phone pocket is for phones that looked like the following: