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!

 

[nauticalstar]

Genuine Legacy Small Flap made in 1997

Thank you so much! I had one other find today which I’d love to get expert eyes on because the number format is pre-90s

It’s a skinny one so it was really hard to get my phone down inside to take a photo of the creed without blocking the light! One shows the serial number better and one shows the creed better

 

[whateve]

I read on another forum bags before 94 can have all letters

You've got that wrong. Before 94 is all numeric -- no letters at all. It isn't just that your bag has 3 letters in a row. The font is wrong. There are probably a lot of other things wrong with the bag that I can't see in those two pictures.

 

[whateve]

Thank you so much! I had one other find today which I’d love to get expert eyes on because the number format is pre-90s

It’s a skinny one so it was really hard to get my phone down inside to take a photo of the creed without blocking the light! One shows the serial number better and one shows the creed better

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It's authentic.

 

[horrorchic1217]

You've got that wrong. Before 94 is all numeric -- no letters at all. It isn't just that your bag has 3 letters in a row. The font is wrong. There are probably a lot of other things wrong with the bag that I can't see in those two pictures.

Can u explain how the font is wrong? I just want to learn. Cause it feels absolutely genuine

 

[whateve]

Can u explain how the font is wrong? I just want to learn. Cause it feels absolutely genuine

Compare it to your authentic bags, especially those made in the US. The letters are too thick. The numbers are too rounded. On an authentic post-94 bag, the second digit indicates the year the bag was made. We can't even compare yours to authentic creeds from the year your bag was supposedly made as there is no year code.

There are many examples in this thread. It will take some time to read through it. The authenticators in this thread have thousands of examples of authentic and fake creeds in our files.

 

[horrorchic1217]

Compare it to your authentic bags, especially those made in the US. The letters are too thick. The numbers are too rounded. On an authentic post-94 bag, the second digit indicates the year the bag was made. We can't even compare yours to authentic creeds from the year your bag was supposedly made as there is no year code.

There are many examples in this thread. It will take some time to read through it. The authenticators in this thread have thousands of examples of authentic and fake creeds in our files.

Thank u

 

[Hoku44]

May I please get an authentication?

Item: Slim duffle 9816
Seller: suepearson387
Site: Poshmark
Link:https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintage-Coach-Legacy-Slim-Duffle-Sac-9816-6355e293f644e5807c06b685

Here's a better pic of the creed, the stamp is so faint, this is best I could do.

 

[Hyacinth]

How do you know positively

I read on another forum bags before 94 can have all letters

That's COMPLETELY WRONG. Please stop stop wasting your time at forums where you can't even get correct answers.

The ONLY genuine Coaches with 3 all-LETTER digits for the serial number prefix are a few styles made between 2014 and 2016.
Genuine Coaches made before 1994 will ALWAYS have 7 or 8 NUMBERS, NO LETTERS, for a serial number.

Where in the world are you hearing this nonsense? Seriously.

Not only does the fake you asked about have an invalid serial prefix but the font used for the number is completely wrong and much too thick, and the spacing is wrong. It doesn't even have a year code.

And we know positively because I and the other two authenticators here at tPF's Coach forum have been studying and researching both real and fake Coaches for between 10 and 20 years. ONLY proven Coach experts are allowed to authenticate in this forum and only after they've proven to the rest of the members and the forum management that they're fully qualified to do so.

 

[Hyacinth]

May I please get an authentication?

Item: Slim duffle 9816
Seller: suepearson387
Site: Poshmark
Link:https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintage-Coach-Legacy-Slim-Duffle-Sac-9816-6355e293f644e5807c06b685

Here's a better pic of the creed, the stamp is so faint, this is best I could do.
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Genuine and made in 2000.

Thank you so much! I had one other find today which I’d love to get expert eyes on because the number format is pre-90s

It’s a skinny one so it was really hard to get my phone down inside to take a photo of the creed without blocking the light! One shows the serial number better and one shows the creed better

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Genuine and made in the early 1990s

 

[Hoku44]

Genuine and made in 2000.

Thank you Hyacinth! As always, your time, effort and response is greatly appreciated.

 

[SJAllison]

Found this little cutie at the thrift. I think it is a Hadley Zip Crossbody from November 1994. It’s about 6.5” long and 5” tall. Were my instincts right and it’s authentic? Thank you!

 

[madamefar]

Dear Aunthenticator,
Could you please help to find out wheter this bag is real or not. Just bought it secondhand from vinted.
Many thanks!

coach swagger 27 (selena gomez campaign)
No. J1621-34816

 

[jillhives]

Hello could you all take a look at this 9791 daypack? I attached the creed shot here. Thank you!
Link
Seller: perennialresale

 

[BeenBurned]

Hello could you all take a look at this 9791 daypack? I attached the creed shot here. Thank you!
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Although the bag you've asked about is genuine, I hesitate to give a green light to sellers who are either too lazy or just don't care enough to verify authenticity of their items. Sometimes they're lucky and have an authentic item but other times, they peddle something like this fake that perennialresale has.

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Since the upside down creed is hard to read, I've rotated it.

 

[jillhives]

Although the bag you've asked about is genuine, I hesitate to give a green light to sellers who are either too lazy or just don't care enough to verify authenticity of their items. Sometimes they're lucky and have an authentic item but other times, they peddle something like this fake that perennialresale has.

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Since the upside down creed is hard to read, I've rotated it.
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Thank you! Also that fake is gone already. Is that because you reported it or b/c the seller has their eyes on this forum?