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:
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• 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!

 

[whateve]

Hi Authenticators, can someone take a look at this PM listing and determine authenticity? I've attached a couple of the listing photos.
Many thanks!

Item: Vintage Coach Sonoma Cream Pebble Leather Bag #4914
Seller: kdepittsburgh
Link: https://poshmark.com/listing/Vintag...ble-Leather-Bag-4914-65932878c5df6cc1353f1d34

It's fine.

 

[whateve]

And also found this one.
- 10.5 x 13 x 9

It's fine. It's a duffle sac. I can't read the creed prefix.

 

[whateve]

Hello. Was wondering what you guys think? Purchased all at local thrift store
Bag one Measures: 12"L, 8"H, 5"W
Bag two 12 x 9 x 4 1/2

Both are fine, both made in the early 90s. The first is a Rambler, the second a Broadway satchel.

 

[coachomufi]

Item: listing says stewardess but it’s a legacy crescent

Seller: mdianajr (on Poshmark)

Link: https://posh.mk/qLa4P8RKfHb

Hi again! Wanted to get eyes on this and see if it’s authentic. Attached is a pic of the creed and Thanks in advance!

Polite bump! ☺️

 

[whateve]

Item: listing says stewardess but it’s a legacy crescent

Seller: mdianajr (on Poshmark)

Link: https://posh.mk/qLa4P8RKfHb

Hi again! Wanted to get eyes on this and see if it’s authentic. Attached is a pic of the creed and Thanks in advance!

Polite bump! ☺️

Sorry you were missed. It's fine.

 

[BeenBurned]

Thanks! I wonder if the pouch on the belt is bigger than the coin purse. I would think it would have to be.

I think it is. THose coin purses were tiny! I never saw the PM listing and I don't know whether there were measurements in the listing.

 

[coachomufi]

Sorry you were missed. It's fine.

No worries, and thank you!

 

[whateve]

I think it is. THose coin purses were tiny! I never saw the PM listing and I don't know whether there were measurements in the listing.

They were adorable! So much detail in such a tiny space. I had a slew of them but they were too nice to use! The only one I used was an already worn black lurex version. These were my favorites.

 

[Luvpurplepurses]

Please authenticate this charm and the style number if you know it. Thanks!
Listing:https://www.ebay.com/itm/145605243609
Seller: thehowlingwolf9

 

[whateve]

Please authenticate this charm and the style number if you know it. Thanks!
Listing:https://www.ebay.com/itm/145605243609
Seller: thehowlingwolf9

It looks good. #1695 leather pear keyfob

 

[Luvpurplepurses]

It looks good. #1695 leather pear keyfob

Thanks @whateve for the quick reply!

 

[bankermtg]

Hello,
Please authenticate this Legacy West Demi Pouch which I picked up at the Goodwill. Thank you.

 

[BeenBurned]

Hello,
Please authenticate this Legacy West Demi Pouch which I picked up at the Goodwill. Thank you.

It's fine, from 2001.

 

[bankermtg]

It's fine, from 2001.

Thank you.

 

[katev]

Was this a real production?

Original Poshmark posting has been removed

That's weird! It looks like two separate items: a coin purse and replacement strap, somehow put together. I don't know why the strap would have the tag for the coin purse on it. The wording of the tag doesn't imply there is a strap. I owned a similar coin purse at one time. I had it in my files as #1735 but I don't know where I got that number. The exterior is made of pony hair. It was tiny. The lining was red and it had a keyring with a red hangtag.

1735 is the correct style number for the coin purse/keychain. (It looks like Coach changed the color of the hangtag when they produced the item. It's not the first/only time that there's a difference between the stock image and final production.)

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I'll bet that it's another example of that wild and crazy Italian Coach Plant E!

My theory is that they did a lot of design work there, and if the designs were changed then the prototypes and early production pieces were put into a storeroom somewhere in Italy. Later, in the mid-2000's when they were shutting down plant E, I think that they cleaned out that storeroom and shipped a lot of random prototype pieces back to Coach in the US - where they sent them to the Outlets to be sold.

I am basing this theory on the fact that the serial number on my rare Wheat Gramercy Clutch 7000 shows that it was made in Italy in 1998 and sold at the Outlet (see pics below) but when I called Coach and asked about it, I was told that the 7000 Gramercy is listed in their computer as having been released on the fictitious date of Feb 31, 2005!

I think that when they were shipping small numbers of Italian prototypes (and early production pieces) back to the US for sale, that they needed to put a release date into their computer for sales purposes, so they made up an impossible date. My guess is that the 7000 clutch had been designed first and they had started production, but it was halted, redesigned, and replaced by the smaller, more common 7007 clutch - so that's my theory! Personally, I like the design of the earlier 7000 clutch better than the final 7007 clutch, anyway!

So maybe that rare "ocelot" change purse from Italy started out having a long, thin strap but it was changed into the strapless, keyring design before production - but a few scarce, early examples of the original design made it back to the US to be sold?