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#76,876
no tennis no life said:
Hello. Please authenticate this bag. I thought Sonoma coach bags were made in Italy only.
Poshmark. Sell: Anaya _Torres Item: coach Sonoma small satchel
Thank you so much.
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Please post a copy of the seller's photo(s) of the creed and serial number.

NO, Sonomas were NOT "made in Italy only". Wherever you're getting that information is not reliable. But first the seller claims it was made in Costa Rica and a sentence later says it was made in the US.
 
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#76,877
Good afternoon dear authenticators! A request to authenticate please. Thank you!

Item: Legacy Courtnay Hobo 22381 (I think!)
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 11" height, 13" width, about 4" depth. Please let me know if the creed photo is okay. I do not know why it comes out upside down. Maybe I should try taking an upside down photo hoping it will come out right side up?

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#76,879
Hyacinth said:
Genuine, looks like a 5180 Metropolitan Brief made between 1986 and 1988
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Awesome, the lady who owned it from the estate sale worked at Coach in San Francisco when the store
Hyacinth said:
Genuine, looks like a 5180 Metropolitan Brief made between 1986 and 1988
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Awesome thanks! The woman who it belonged to worked at the first Coach store in san francisco. She said Coach stores were set up like librarys back then and she would have to climb up and down the latter to retrieve bags all day for tourists. She took a couple bags when she left the company and I was really excited to hear about her experience.
 
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JuneCleaverSemperFi said:
Awesome, the lady who owned it from the estate sale worked at Coach in San Francisco when the store

Awesome thanks! The woman who it belonged to worked at the first Coach store in san francisco. She said Coach stores were set up like librarys back then and she would have to climb up and down the latter to retrieve bags all day for tourists. She took a couple bags when she left the company and I was really excited to hear about her experience.
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I bought my first Coach from that store! I don't remember much about it, just that it seemed like a lot to spend on a bag, but after I got my first one, I came back every year to get a new one.
 
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Jacynthe said:
Good afternoon dear authenticators! A request to authenticate please. Thank you!

Item: Legacy Courtnay Hobo 22381 (I think!)
Where purchased or how obtained: thrift store
Comments: dimensions are 11" height, 13" width, about 4" depth. Please let me know if the creed photo is okay. I do not know why it comes out upside down. Maybe I should try taking an upside down photo hoping it will come out right side up?

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It looks fine.
 
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whateve said:
I bought my first Coach from that store! I don't remember much about it, just that it seemed like a lot to spend on a bag, but after I got my first one, I came back every year to get a new one.
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That is so cool! So Coach went from its New York factory to the west coast and opened a store? That is one of the original Coach stores? That is so intersting how it was set up like a Library. She said that store kept her so busy and she was making 6.50 an hour climbing up and down the latter retrieving bags all day.
 
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JuneCleaverSemperFi said:
That is so cool! So Coach went from its New York factory to the west coast and opened a store? That is one of the original Coach stores? That is so intersting how it was set up like a Library. She said that store kept her so busy and she was making 6.50 an hour climbing up and down the latter retrieving bags all day.
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I really don't know how many other stores they had opened before they opened in San Francisco. I bought my first bag around 1977. I don't remember what the store looked like on the inside.
 
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JuneCleaverSemperFi said:
That is so cool! So Coach went from its New York factory to the west coast and opened a store? That is one of the original Coach stores? That is so intersting how it was set up like a Library. She said that store kept her so busy and she was making 6.50 an hour climbing up and down the latter retrieving bags all day.
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I bet she was in good shape!
 
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whateve said:
For some reason, that link doesn't work. I think this one does. https://www.ebay.com/itm/284979940735?hash=item425a20cd7f:g:~hYAAOSwVkFjJPgF&amdata=enc:AQAHAAAAoMKGZbjW9u9Y5GNfRADV6EnCEbdJ2W4LkDde1BGyplURUsHtpNOWg1DnHoXMESGdni+NsuquB9V9rVYTZRWWC6T0HLf559wZPBO4jYTQxgv8emHHTgX0U69etgJ5KfDDSN2xk8tlyw8jZDH67ifKFQ5kH1Rs9PaUSc+QxrjnXPbNrHuyny28pWC4Mg2rHTiMlmAM+l2lUCXKE9Q3tO2RZN0=|tkp:Bk9SR7rktuzuYA

It's authentic. I wonder what the color really looks like.
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It is difficult to tell the color by computer photos and I couldn’t read the creed but I’m gonna take a chance. Whateve, many thanks and salutations to you for your work here and for checking out this bag for me.
 
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