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

[Vlad]

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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!

 

[Christinern]

Please authenticate

1. Brown coach city bag

Creed : No F62 - 9790

eBay listing : http://m.ebay.com/itm/VTG-COACH-979...-Shoulder-Purse-/161945581761?nav=WON&trxId=0

Seller : mammajosclothes

hyacinth, thank you for your thorough guides. I have read them & if I am learning correctly from you than this bag was made in June 1996 in Turkey

2 . Brown coach bag

Creed : No 0285-218

eBay listing : http://m.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-COACH...BAG-MADE-IN-USA-/262247174220?nav=WON&trxId=0

Seller : nanushe54

I am not sure of the name of the bag but I think it was made in the 80's.

Thank you, Christine

 

[Hyacinth]

It's fake (and according to my records, not terrace_swing's first fake.)

I DON'T RECOMMEND TERRACE SWING - TERRACE_SWING

ETA: This listing needs to be looked at too. I'm not comfortable with it.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Vinta...326389?hash=item58d4ccfeb5:g:~DcAAOSwCypWolRT

ETA: And another:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Vinta...045849?hash=item5681556959:g:RXcAAOSwCypWn8J2


And the serial number font on this listing doesn't match others from the same month/year and plant:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Vinta...349356?hash=item58d4aed3ec:g:Yz4AAOSwpRRWn843

The 9981 "Watson Bag" is definitely fake. bad month code, NOT the correct font for the B plant, and I think there's a hint of indentations on the back of the turnlock when I mouse over it. The turnlock itself looks a bit "off" too.

.I agree - " TERRACE SWING " is rotten and infested with termites.

 

[BeenBurned]

The 9981 "Watson Bag" is definitely fake. bad month code, NOT the correct font for the B plant, and I think there's a hint of indentations on the back of the turnlock when I mouse over it. The turnlock itself looks a bit "off" too.

.I agree - " TERRACE SWING " is rotten and infested with termites.

For those interested, these are the fakes that are still viewable. I wonder how many were sold over the last several months but don't come up in the completed listings.
381527326389
381525349356
371537045849
381525294887
381525283553
371537003684

 

[Hyacinth]

Please authenticate

1. Brown coach city bag

Creed : No F62 - 9790

eBay listing : http://m.ebay.com/itm/VTG-COACH-979...-Shoulder-Purse-/161945581761?nav=WON&trxId=0

Seller : mammajosclothes

hyacinth, thank you for your thorough guides. I have read them & if I am learning correctly from you than this bag was made in June 1996 in Turkey

2 . Brown coach bag

Creed : No 0285-218

eBay listing : http://m.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-COACH...BAG-MADE-IN-USA-/262247174220?nav=WON&trxId=0

Seller : nanushe54

I am not sure of the name of the bag but I think it was made in the 80's.

Thank you, Christine

Correct on the first one, and it's genuine.

A bit too early on the second. Coach didn't start using the 4+3 serial number format (0285-218) until 1990. So bags with that serial format, if genuine, would have been made between 1990 and 1993. This one is a Brighton Bag, style 9895, and that style was made in the early 1990s.

 

[Christinern]

Thank you Hyacinth.

 

[SheriDahlin]

HI ALL! I know there has been a lot of discussion about this bag-style 9992. I just found this in one of my boxes. Serial number reads J6C-9992-creed is pretty worn.made in USA .Please Authenticate. I'm not familiar with this style ...
Thanks so much in advanceS.

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[Hyacinth]

HI ALL! I know there has been a lot of discussion about this bag-style 9992. I just found this in one of my boxes. Serial number reads J6C-9992-creed is pretty worn.made in USA .Please Authenticate. I'm not familiar with this style ...
Thanks so much in advanceS.

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It's a genuine Handle Backpack. Here's the Holiday 1996 catalog pic

 

[BlondieToHell]

Hi ladies! Is this wallet ok? It's a bit dirty. What is it called?

 

[modraucous]

Hi-I am new to this but have wanted one of these bags for a while. Is this an authentic saddle bag?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-COA...816033?hash=item3d0f4e9fe1:g:HjoAAOSwoydWnwJW
My eyes are really bad and I actually just can't read the creed/# or I would type it out here. Thanks so much ladies!

 

[BeenBurned]

Hi ladies! Is this wallet ok? It's a bit dirty. What is it called?View attachment 3252258View attachment 3252259

It looks good and is a slim envelope wallet but I don't know the style number.

 

[whateve]

Hi-I am new to this but have wanted one of these bags for a while. Is this an authentic saddle bag?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-COA...816033?hash=item3d0f4e9fe1:g:HjoAAOSwoydWnwJW
My eyes are really bad and I actually just can't read the creed/# or I would type it out here. Thanks so much ladies!

It looks authentic. It isn't a saddle bag or a classic pouch, which is the inspiration for the current saddle bags, nor was it made in NYC in the 70s or 80s as the seller says. You can read right on the creed that it was made in Costa Rica in the 90s (I can't quite read the year code.) It is a Fletcher bag. It was part of the Lightweights/Soho collection so the leather is thinner and lighter-weight than classic Coach bags.

 

[modraucous]

thanks so much! very helpful and kind of you

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi-I am new to this but have wanted one of these bags for a while. Is this an authentic saddle bag?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-COA...816033?hash=item3d0f4e9fe1:g:HjoAAOSwoydWnwJW
My eyes are really bad and I actually just can't read the creed/# or I would type it out here. Thanks so much ladies!

That style was never called a Saddle Bag. Don't ever depend on a seller to know the right name, age, color name, style number, year of manufacture OR designer of any Coach they're selling.

This one is a Soho Fletcher Bag, style number 4150 which is clearly stamped as part of the serial number. I can't read the year code but it would have been made in the late 1990s, NOT the '70s or '80s. The color was called British TAN, not British Brown. And the seller says it was made in the USA when the creed stamp says Costa Rica. It was never called a Saddle Bag by Coach.

Coach also re-uses names over and over again. There can be as many as a dozen very different styles that all have the same name, like Madison or Chelsea - or Saddle.

Up until the present, there were only three styles I can find (not including different fabrics for the same style bags) where Coach actually used the official style name "Saddle Bag". The three styles are pictured below. Coach used the generic term "saddle bags" for bags that had the same general shape, just like they would use the term messenger bag or crossbody bag. The generic term can cover many different bags made over a long period of time with little in common except a similar shape, long strap and front flap.

There's also ANOTHER style called a Saddle Bag which is just being introduced as an homage to the older styles, but I don't think that's the one you had in mind. It's a new style and priced accordingly, there are photos posted over at the main Coach thread:
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-clubhouse/2016-saddle-bag-club-921486.html

The new Saddle Bags are still available at Coach.com - notice the prices.
http://www.coach.com/shop/women-handbags-saddle-bag

If you can post pictures of the EXACT style you're looking for, we can give you the official name and style number so you can search for it more effectively. But just looking for what someone is calling a "saddle bag" may lead to disappointment, especially if you have vision problems that don't let you see details clearly.

Here are styles 9851 from the early 1990s, style 9988 from the late 1990s, and style 9122 in Twill with leather trim (also available in all leather) from around 2002:

 

[BeenBurned]

Hi-I am new to this but have wanted one of these bags for a while. Is this an authentic saddle bag?
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-COA...816033?hash=item3d0f4e9fe1:g:HjoAAOSwoydWnwJW
My eyes are really bad and I actually just can't read the creed/# or I would type it out here. Thanks so much ladies!

You can read right on the creed that it was made in Costa Rica in the 90s (I can't quite read the year code.) It is a Fletcher bag. It was part of the Lightweights/Soho collection so the leather is thinner and lighter-weight than classic Coach bags.

This one is a Soho Fletcher Bag, style number 4150 which is clearly stamped as part of the serial number. I can't read the year code but it would have been made in the late 1990s, NOT the '70s or '80s.

I'm seeing 1999..

Not only is it not 1970s or 80s, but it's not even vintage.

 

[SheriDahlin]

It's a genuine Handle Backpack. Here's the Holiday 1996 catalog pic

GOODYGOODYGOODY!!! Thank you-I prob had it authenticated- but I'll bet it has been sitting in a box for 2 years. Honestly, I can't imagine that bag was fake, way too much work went into it..
HOORAY-:snowballs:
Thank you Hyacinth!!! CHEERS! S.