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One of the authentic Coach bags I bought on ebay came with a fake hangtag!
I've noticed they don't seem to remove listings for straps even though those weren't sold separately. There was a seller recently who sold a strap for a station bag for something like $35, then sold the station bag for $20. She did this with a bunch of bags, getting more for the straps than the bags.
What really irks me are the sellers who realize they can get more money if they sell the hangtags separately, but I also realize there are people who never use the additional strap or remove the hangtags from their bags and they should be able to sell those, IMO.
It's a skinny flight bag. I think the number is 9706 from the early 80's. It could be sage or putty.
Whoa, it even came with the strap? So jealous! I don't have the name in my files but it appears authentic. Maybe something like small Bleecker bucket.
Well obviously the tag is your first clue! Poppy creeds aren't supposed to have a horse and carriage. I believe you have gotten yourself a fake.
HOLY COW
The tag, numbers, and anything attached to it is a total fake. No price, no valid style number, NOTHING. A Poppy Sig New Willis? REALLY???? That doesn't look like any Willis I've ever seen. They're not even from the same line or class of bags! And I'd love to know what the apparently Chinese characters say - probably "Gotcha, Capitalist Running Dog!" No wonder the seller didn't show the inside of the tag.
Next time you're tempted to buy anything while not 100 percent rational, please stop here at tPF first and ask for an intervention. One of us will talk you down.
DO NOT BUY ANYTHING FROM SELLER " mahmoodnawal "
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Genuine but the name and number aren't in my files - I usually don't save pictures or information on accessories. There are just too many of them and so many seem to be MFF and almost impossible to track down names or numbers or any information.
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The color might be Tabac. Sage isn't in any of my mid-80s color sample pages. It was probably introduced some time between very late 1983 and 1985, and discontinued by early 1989.
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Hmmmm...it's not skinny though, it' s a little over 3" deep. When did the NYC factory close?
Definitely not tabac. If you see it in person it is a grayish greenish, definitely in the olive family.
Maybe the putty - that makes more sense cause it has that muddy kind of tone.
Hi guys,
I am trying to educate myself on the newer style dust bags (what to look out for) I have never seen this one with the logo far away from the edge. Is this fake? Thanks
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Brown...18-5-X-19-5-Draw-String-closure-/121244039452
I am trying to educate myself on the newer style dust bags (what to look out for) I have never seen this one with the logo far away from the edge. Is this fake? Thanks
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Brown...18-5-X-19-5-Draw-String-closure-/121244039452
That's what Coach called it though. Go figure. See the picture below.
There are no solid dates for the NYC factory. They stopped using the Made in NYC stamp in early 1988 but that was because more plants were added, not because the plant itself was closed - it stayed open although production was probably gradually scaled back.
The NYC "A" plant seems to have been mostly de-activated by 1994 when Coach started adding plant codes to serial numbers, but there were still a few bags being made there, mostly samples and pilot bags but once in a while some regular production bags that maybe the other plants didn't have the capacity to produce. We've seen probable NYC-made bags until at least the middle to later-1990s.
The NYC location had become Coach's home office but it seems like there was at least a small group of craftsmen there all the way through and may still be there for all we know. Maybe Tetondeb can peek behind a few doors during her visit to the archives and let us know.
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