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Well, this piece of junk from that seller mustanglanie is DEFINITELY fake, please feel free to report.
Coach never used that style clip.
AUTHENTIC COACH SCRIPT GOLD KEYCHAIN EXCELLENT CONDITION
http://www.ebay.com/itm/AUTHENTIC-C...924?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item337a9a5994
As for the hangtags, she either takes them off bags after she buys them - or some sellers do it right in the store WITHOUT buying the bag - or she cons Coach out of free keychains and sells them, and before long Coach will stop giving them away to people who really need them.
I avoid sellers like that on principle, and the fake listed above isn't in the seller's favor either.
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Sorry, I can't find a bag that matches the seller's measurements. The only similar one is described by Coach as almost 3 inches shorter, 3 inches narrower and with a 4-inch shorter strap. This one may be genuine but I can't give you a name. I'm including a photo just in case...
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Well, so far no reply from seller to my requests for photos of creed plate or serial number...I stopped bidding to be on safe side. Thank you so much for looking to see if you could find other pics of that style. This forum is just amazing - extremely helpful and I am already learning so much!
Originally Posted by Hyacinth View Post
The bag is fake - look at the stitching around the small Coach patch on the outside. The whole patch is a sloppy crooked MESS. Normally we'd ask to see the creed patch but in this case it's not neccessary. PLEASE post a Comment there that the bag has been verified as fake at tPF.
EDITED TO ADD - If this is the wallet, it seems ok although there's one tiny thing that worries me. I wish the seller had shown the cards that are in the slots.
http://www.listia.com/auction/552059...x-coach-wallet
I got a second opinion on the wallet and it's probably fake - the card with the number has so far only shown up on fakes-selling sites, and the same for the box. Looks like the listing is already gone.
The bag is fake - look at the stitching around the small Coach patch on the outside. The whole patch is a sloppy crooked MESS. Normally we'd ask to see the creed patch but in this case it's not neccessary. PLEASE post a Comment there that the bag has been verified as fake at tPF.
EDITED TO ADD - If this is the wallet, it seems ok although there's one tiny thing that worries me. I wish the seller had shown the cards that are in the slots.
http://www.listia.com/auction/552059...x-coach-wallet
I requested a image of the Coach cards that are in the credit card slots.. to be uploaded as soon as humanly possible.thanks Hyacinth
I got a second opinion on the wallet and it's probably fake - the card with the number has so far only shown up on fakes-selling sites, and the same for the box. Looks like the listing is already gone.
here one more for you to check if you wouldn't mind.
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/COACH-LARGE-...228?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item337a41904c
Thanks again
Kim
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/COACH-LARGE-...228?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item337a41904c
Thanks again
Kim
Hi Hyacinth! I'm new to the site and was wondering if you could please authenticate this coach bag... Thank you for your help in advance!
Link: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/230836512...84.m1431.l2648
Link: http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/230836512...84.m1431.l2648
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Thank you, Hyacinth. So just to clarify, I see from the salarea ebay guide (http://reviews.ebay.com/Coach-Serial-Numbers-the-Basic-Facts?ugid=10000000034886433) that the Coach creed came into use in the mid to late 70s. According to a Wall Street Journal online article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304373804577521103724158314.html#slide/1) the Crescent Bag was released in 1964. I believe I read somewhere that Bonnie Cashin left Coach in 1972, so if that's all correct are you then saying my bag was probably made in the early to mid 1970s?
I am not speaking for Hyacinth!
Cashin was "sole designer at Coach from 1962 - 1974" according to the Cashin foundation.
Unfortunately, according to the Cashin Foundation, Coach used and adapted many of her designs AFTER she left.
Also unfortunately, we don't know all the various "marks" they were using during any of that time period.
A bag could be designed by Cashin, but not made during her time at Coach.
I have one bag with that "mark" that was deemed to be NOT a Cashin design and NOT made during her time at Coach.
It's all a big mystery!
ETA: I do recall that one of our "sorely missed posters" (Denim) DID have a bag with the same mark authenticated as a Cashin design.
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Originally Posted by Hyacinth
Possibly Cashin-era but more likely from just a few years later. Maybe DemRam can narrow it down a bit further, early Coaches are almost impossible to pin down to an exact year.
That would be my guess, but DemRam is more familiar with Cashin-era styles than I am. The bag was possibly her design, but "Cashin-era" is usually defined as the period during which she actually designed for Coach. Most of the true Cashin-era items I've seen have had one of her labels or special linings but there probably were some that didn't. Again, it's not a period that I've studied. And even the addition of the Coach creed may have come a bit later than my guesstimate, or been spread over a longer period of time. Those earlier days don't have any dependable public documentation, other than maybe the Cashin Foundation.
ETA - What DemRam said.
Possibly Cashin-era but more likely from just a few years later. Maybe DemRam can narrow it down a bit further, early Coaches are almost impossible to pin down to an exact year.
That would be my guess, but DemRam is more familiar with Cashin-era styles than I am. The bag was possibly her design, but "Cashin-era" is usually defined as the period during which she actually designed for Coach. Most of the true Cashin-era items I've seen have had one of her labels or special linings but there probably were some that didn't. Again, it's not a period that I've studied. And even the addition of the Coach creed may have come a bit later than my guesstimate, or been spread over a longer period of time. Those earlier days don't have any dependable public documentation, other than maybe the Cashin Foundation.
ETA - What DemRam said.
Item: Turnlock wristlet and card case
Listing number: 260848863749
Seller: turn2burn
Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...sPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en#ht_1767wt_1193
Comments: Authentic?
TY
Listing number: 260848863749
Seller: turn2burn
Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...sPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en#ht_1767wt_1193
Comments: Authentic?
TY
Item: Turnlock wristlet and card case
Listing number: 260848863749
Seller: turn2burn
Link: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dl...sPageName=VIP:watchlink:top:en#ht_1767wt_1193
Comments: Authentic?
TY
It looks ok.
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