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Originally Posted by
pzold 
Starrymaz ...About your question regarding #3......Would it be the Creed? I'm no expert so please forgive me if I'm wrong. But I have trying to learn as much as I can lately and I have been reading everything I can in the past 2 weeks.
I read somewhere that in the number abbreviation on the creed ... "N0" ..... that the line under the 0 ... "0" ... should not come farther down than the middle of the "N" ... not at the bottom of the "N". I don't know if this is true but it is certainly the case in #3. (see attached) Also there is a large gap after the first set of numbers and the dash and the stitching at the top of the creed looks to be double stitched. I don't know if any of this means anything but maybe this is what she saw???
I'm just guessing 
this is exactly one of the things I saw. also this bag's hangtag doesn't have a grommet. I think the leather hangtags are supposed to unless this is an exception
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Originally Posted by
starrymaz
I noticed that on the creed too. This particular bag is an older bag and some of the older bags do have an O that's slightly larger on the creed and the spacing of the numbers may look different. The stitching does look a bit wonky on this creed, but I can't tell if it's just the way the creed was bent when the picture was taken that may have made it appear that way. I'd be interested in hearing what Hyacinth thinks, as she knows a lot about the older bags.
What's true on Coaches today isn't necessarily true on Coaches from a few years ago or older. The creed for #3 is fine, and Coach didn't start using metal grommets on their hangtags as a regular thing until somewhere around '03 going by the catalogs I have. The year code in the serial # shows 2002, there hasn't been and there won't be an 02 year code until 2102.
About things like where the underscores and dashes and gaps are supposed to be in the creeds - there WAS no exact standard up until the last few years - every plant started out with it's own dies and templates, and it's perfectly normal for them to be different. Some Ebay posters can even tell what country a "classic" bag was made in by the creed font and format and the spacing of the serial number digits. So don't read too much into it if an earlier bag, say before 2004, has a creed that's a bit different, although someone here should still take a look at it to be sure.
Don't depend on "rules", Coach changes the rules as they go, and for every rule except maybe one or two there's an exception or at least a disagreement.
