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

[Vlad]

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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:
  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!

 

[BeenBurned]

Thank you!! It wasn't recognizable Coach (to the price-setters at the store), so I got this for $3.99!

I love when that happens!

 

[summerred]

Hello authenticators,

What’s the verdict on this item? #5130

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[BeenBurned]

Hello authenticators,

What’s the verdict on this item? #5130

Mercari: Your Marketplace

Mercari is your marketplace. It's the perfect place to declutter and discover items that are uniquely you. Say 'goodbye' to your old go-tos and 'hello' to one-of-a-kind treasures.

www.mercari.com

Please also include seller ID as we want to be sure we're evaluating the correct item. SOmetimes links don't bring us directly to the listing.

BeckwithBlack

The bag is fine, made in 2001.

 

[summerred]

Please also include seller ID as we want to be sure we're evaluating the correct item. SOmetimes links don't bring us directly to the listing.

BeckwithBlack

The bag is fine, made in 2001.

Apologies; seller is BeckwithBlack in case anyone else want to reference the link.

Thanks so much! I impulsively purchased this item and upon closer consideration I was a little nervous. While I know many authentic items were made in China I don’t own any myself until now

 

[pursepiggy2]

Item- 70s Coach Bag?
list#- na
seller- vintagebags2019. poshmark
link: https://posh.mk/fSLxx2vzJsb
Creed- 988 1648

Time to ask for help from the Coach Yoda- (its a BIG compliment)
one of my “gotta have it” buys. When i received it, it’s navy blue with what looks like black trim. did they make them in that color combo? Any clue to the name of this cute one?

 

[whateve]

Item- 70s Coach Bag?
list#- na
seller- vintagebags2019. poshmark
link: https://posh.mk/fSLxx2vzJsb
Creed- 988 1648

Time to ask for help from the Coach Yoda- (its a BIG compliment)
one of my “gotta have it” buys. When i received it, it’s navy blue with what looks like black trim. did they make them in that color combo? Any clue to the name of this cute one?

It's authentic, but not a Bonnie Cashin nor a dinky. It's a shoulder purse #9385. The first catalog mention I have of this style is mid 80s so it probably not 70s.

It probably wasn't made two tone by design. That is accidental because the leather for the trim took the dye differently than the other leather.

It is very difficult to tell vintage navy from black. It will probably darken when you rehab. The best way to tell the color is to compare the inside color with a vintage bag you know is black.

 

[Narnanz]

It's authentic, but not a Bonnie Cashin nor a dinky. It's a shoulder purse #9385. The first catalog mention I have of this style is mid 80s so it probably not 70s.

It probably wasn't made two tone by design. That is accidental because the leather for the trim took the dye differently than the other leather.

It is very difficult to tell vintage navy from black. It will probably darken when you rehab. The best way to tell the color is to compare the inside color with a vintage bag you know is black.

Or just call it 'Blavy'

 

[pursepiggy2]

voilà!!!wonderful to know- how do i find a catalog of vintage bags?

 

[Hyacinth]

Or just call it 'Blavy'

Or "Nack"

 

[ConnieinSeattle]

Here's another thrift store find yesterday. No creed, no white label. Looks beautiful to me. (Quick story, an employee at the store trundled out a table thing full of additional new items to put out on the selling racks...as she stepped away I ransacked it and found this one and grabbed it! There was another coach, a red suede beautiful but they had cranked the price wayyyy up.) Please and thank you for an authentication opinion. This is a NICE bag.

 

[BeenBurned]

Here's another thrift store find yesterday. No creed, no white label. Looks beautiful to me. (Quick story, an employee at the store trundled out a table thing full of additional new items to put out on the selling racks...as she stepped away I ransacked it and found this one and grabbed it! There was another coach, a red suede beautiful but they had cranked the price wayyyy up.) Please and thank you for an authentication opinion. This is a NICE bag.

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It's fine.

I still think that there might be tags hiding way down inside the open pocket! (Seriously, the label is hard to find and harder to photograph even when you know it's there.) The perforated one (from last night) might also have a difficult-to-find one.

 

[Hyacinth]

voilà!!!wonderful to know- how do i find a catalog of vintage bags?

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Main Coach forum > Coach Reference Library (link on upper right side of page) >
Vintage Coach Catalogs

Vintage Coach Catalogs

Here is a place to find entire vintage catalogs that been uploaded ;)

forum.purseblog.com

You can sometimes find sellers selling vintage catalog scans on a thumb drive or USB or even a dvd or other data storage medium, but don't waste your money. The scans posted here are from the same original source, and also includes others NOT on those thumb drives that were posted here by members who own the paper catalogs. We do not sell them, and we disclose right in that thread that Coach is still the legal owner of the copyrights and trademarks included in the scans posted here, and we have no connection to, and make NO profit from, any sales by any other parties. We don't even require that anyone join tPF to see the scans posted here, they are a free service by tPF and available to everyone. All we require is that they be used legally.

And just a word to the wise, or to the not-so-wise - SELLING copies of Coach's catalogs or anything that includes Coach's trademarked or copyright graphics or text without Coach's express permission, preferably in writing, is a violation of US and International copyright and trademark protection laws. Anyone doing so is playing with fire.

 

[BeenBurned]

And just a word to the wise - SELLING copies of Coach's catalogs or anything that includes Coach's trademarked or copyright graphics without Coach's express permission, preferably in writing, is a violation of US and International copyright and trademark protection laws. Anyone doing so is playing with fire.

To clarify, it's COPIES that can't be sold, whether those copies are photocopied or scanned to USBs.

Selling the actual original catalog is fine.

 

[ConnieinSeattle]

It's fine.

I still think that there might be tags hiding way down inside the open pocket! (Seriously, the label is hard to find and harder to photograph even when you know it's there.) The perforated one (from last night) might also have a difficult-to-find one.

Thank you!

 

[lgrissom]

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!

Hello,
Can you please authenticate this bag?
Item: Coach Suede Satchel
Item #: NoE050-8A78
Link: There isn’t one because I bought it at a Thrift Store
None Available

Measurements:
Width- 11 1/2 inches wide
Height - 8 1/2 inches tall

If anyone has the correct name of the bag, that would be great!

Thanks to everyone
Lee Anne