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!

 

[traciraedunn]

Please help authenticate this coach bag
Coach 9074 reissued bonnie hobo

 

[whateve]

Oh I’m so sorry. It is the smaller one. I have the bigger one in a dark brown color still in storage. I thought it was a mailman bag, I think that’s what it was advertised as when I bought it. Thank you whateve. I’ll make a note to put the size of the bag. I’ve read the salesarea guides and I’m still confused about the style numbers system. some bags I have that came with the registration card, don’t remember if I registered or not. And then there are the ones with the actual style number as my duffle sac #9085. I’m still going thru the older posts in the reference library trying to match what I have. You Authenticators are a real treasure here. Thank you for taking the time to look and give the names and dates of the items. I appreciate you all. Have a blessed day. I’m loving all the eye candy in the reference library.

I bought bags back when they had the registration cards. I don't remember if I registered either. I've often wondered what Coach did with those registration files. For the life of me, I can't remember what styles I bought in the late 70s and early 80s. I sure wish I had kept those bags.

We're happy to help!

 

[traciraedunn]

Can someone let me know if I'm posting correctly

 

[whateve]

Please help authenticate this coach bag
Coach 9074 reissued bonnie hobo

There is no need to repost requests multiple times. We are volunteers and don't have assigned hours. Please be patient. It could take several hours or a day before your request is addressed. Not all authenticators can answer every request as we each have our own specialties and rules.

If you had read the first post at the top of the page, you would have seen the format that is required. I believe this is the listing you are asking about: https://www.ebay.com/itm/3145440496...=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557


It's an authentic Bonnie retro hobo. It was made in 2000, not the 60s. It was inspired by an earlier Bonnie Cashin design. Bonnie Cashin was no longer associated with Coach when this bag was made, nor had she been for many, many years.

 

[traciraedunn]

Omg in sorry to have bothered you or anyone. I just can't find the serial number on Google to confirm authenticity. Thank so much for the reply.

 

[statestreetsadie]

Hello! Please look at this bag when you have the time. Thank you so much!

Name: I believe it might be a Coach Signature Hampton Satchel
Where Found: estate sale (same sale I found the green/gold bag I posted earlier)
Comments: measurements are 14” long, 8” high (16” with straps), 4” wide across bottom

 

[Greenie55]

It's a genuine Metropolis Zip Bag made in 1997

Awesome. THANK YOU!! So happy

 

[Hyacinth]

Omg in sorry to have bothered you or anyone. I just can't find the serial number on Google to confirm authenticity. Thank so much for the reply.

"FINDING A SERIAL NUMBER ON GOOGLE" CAN NEVER PROVE ANYTHING IS AUTHENTIC!

Please don't ever make that mistake! If that's how you've been "authenticating" your Coaches, you may have already made some expensive mistakes. And before you start basing your ideas about whether something is authentic on a bunch of totally useless and dangerous "authenticity guides", you need to slowly and carefully read the thread titled "Salearea Guides" posted in this subforum and linked and Pinned here:

SaleArea guides

Now that ebay is removing the guides they've been hosting for years, those who use those guides have been forced to either save them on their computers or print them. Tonight I found that the Salearea guides (including the Hyacinth/Salearea collaboration ones) have been saved to Salearea's...

forum.purseblog.com

They were researched and put together by me over several years and corrected and updated over the last 12 years and are ACCURATE. Please pay special attention to the section about the dangerous myths about authenticity that are mostly or totally wrong, I go into them in detail. Read the entire thread including the first dozen or so posts that provide a bit of background and don't be concerned if some links no longer work. But please stop depending on misinformation, lies and just plain BS.

The "search for a number with Google can prove a Coach is authentic" myth is addressed in the Salearea Guides.

And only post a question ONCE, unless you don't get an answer after 24 hours.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hello! Please look at this bag when you have the time. Thank you so much!

Name: I believe it might be a Coach Signature Hampton Satchel
Where Found: estate sale (same sale I found the green/gold bag I posted earlier)
Comments: measurements are 14” long, 8” high (16” with straps), 4” wide across bottom

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Genuine and made in 2008

 

[traciraedunn]

"FINDING A SERIAL NUMBER ON GOOGLE" CAN NEVER PROVE ANYTHING IS AUTHENTIC!

Please don't ever make that mistake! If that's how you've been "authenticating" your Coaches, you may have already made some expensive mistakes. And before you start basing your ideas about whether something is authentic on a bunch of totally useless and dangerous "authenticity guides", you need to slowly and carefully read the thread titled "Salearea Guides" posted in this subforum and linked and Pinned here:

SaleArea guides

Now that ebay is removing the guides they've been hosting for years, those who use those guides have been forced to either save them on their computers or print them. Tonight I found that the Salearea guides (including the Hyacinth/Salearea collaboration ones) have been saved to Salearea's...

forum.purseblog.com

They were researched and put together by me over several years and corrected and updated over the last 12 years and are ACCURATE. Please pay special attention to the section about the dangerous myths about authenticity that are mostly or totally wrong, I go into them in detail. Read the entire thread including the first dozen or so posts that provide a bit of background and don't be concerned if some links no longer work. But please stop depending on misinformation, lies and just plain BS.

The "search for a number with Google can prove a Coach is authentic" myth is addressed in the Salearea Guides.

And only post a question ONCE, unless you don't get an answer after 24 hours.

 

[traciraedunn]

"FINDING A SERIAL NUMBER ON GOOGLE" CAN NEVER PROVE ANYTHING IS AUTHENTIC!

Please don't ever make that mistake! If that's how you've been "authenticating" your Coaches, you may have already made some expensive mistakes. And before you start basing your ideas about whether something is authentic on a bunch of totally useless and dangerous "authenticity guides", you need to slowly and carefully read the thread titled "Salearea Guides" posted in this subforum and linked and Pinned here:

SaleArea guides

Now that ebay is removing the guides they've been hosting for years, those who use those guides have been forced to either save them on their computers or print them. Tonight I found that the Salearea guides (including the Hyacinth/Salearea collaboration ones) have been saved to Salearea's...

forum.purseblog.com

They were researched and put together by me over several years and corrected and updated over the last 12 years and are ACCURATE. Please pay special attention to the section about the dangerous myths about authenticity that are mostly or totally wrong, I go into them in detail. Read the entire thread including the first dozen or so posts that provide a bit of background and don't be concerned if some links no longer work. But please stop depending on misinformation, lies and just plain BS.

The "search for a number with Google can prove a Coach is authentic" myth is addressed in the Salearea Guides.

And only post a question ONCE, unless you don't get an answer after 24 hours.

Noted. I apologize. With that being said. Do you agree that the bag I asked to be authenticated is authentic?

 

[statestreetsadie]

Genuine and made in 2008

Awesome thank you!

 

[Hyacinth]

Noted. I apologize. With that being said. Do you agree that the bag I asked to be authenticated is authentic?

Yes, it's authentic, and Whateve's comments are correct in every detail. There's NO need to ask for a second opinion.

Let me tell you something about the Coach authenticators here. All 3 of us have been buying, selling, studying and/or researching Coach and authenticating the brand for a VERY long time and have something like 35 YEARS of experience among us, as well as an encyclopedic collection of text files about details and descriptions. We also probably have a combined total of at least 200,000 photos in our collections of both authentic AND fake Coaches including many very small details that are absolutely vital in determining if a "Coach" is real or not. False modesty isn't one of my faults (I have NO faults actually except for being a bit short-tempered ) so I'm going to say that we are the best damn Coach authenticators on the internet, paid OR free, and any mistakes we might make over the course of a year can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. We work together and share our knowledge and our resources, and if one of us does happen to get something wrong, the other two will usually catch and correct the mistake very quickly. If we can't find an answer we'll keep digging and discussing the problem until we do.

This is NOT one of those anonymous internet sites or Facebook Groups where someone asks "is this Coach authentic" and 10 people jump in with different and often conflicting answers. We don't Copy & Paste nonsense and BS that we find "somewhere on the internet" as fact. Authenticators here at tPF have to actually be recognised experts with a proven track record here, and no one except the recognised and forum-approved Authenticators with that title under their icons are permitted to give any kind of authentication opinions. The other two ladies I work with, BeenBurned and Whateve, are the best Coach authenticators on the internet. PERIOD.

 

[BeenBurned]

Hello! I have a bag for you to look at when you have the time.

Item: Green & Gold Coach Bag
Where purchased or how obtained: estate sale
Comments: measurements are: 14” long at bottom widening to 20” across the top, 11” high (17” with straps), 3 1/2” wide on bottom.

creed number says D1176-F17394

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(And I have a separate question, I have five more coach bags I have procrastinated about asking you guys to look at, do you prefer bulk posts or separate ones for each purse? Thank you so much for your time, it is very appreciated!)

I think this request was missed.

The bag is fine, made in 2011.

ETA: I believe it's some type of Soho tote but I don't know the official name of the style.

 

[Roro]

Good morning. I think I’ve had every color of this bag. Except this brown. Wondering if it’s real—having extreme doubts.

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