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Coach Handbag, Gently Used
291260293377
lobster056
http://www.ebay.com/itm/291260293377
Super kind seller, responded immediately to my request for creed pic but maybe my eyes aren't working because I only see 3 numbers for style. And weren't the perf styles much much later than 2000? It has a bid and auction ends Tuesday.
Coach Vintage Carmel Brown Leather Crossbody Shoulder Handbag #301~USA~
221565573399
uptowngirl_2013
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Coach-Vintage-Carmel-Brown-Leather-Crossbody-Shoulder-Handbag-301-USA-/221565573399?pt=US_CSA_WH_Handbags&hash=item3396565917
All sorts of nonsense with this listing. Have a request in for creed and more pics. But they state it is style #301 and brown when picture is obviously a black bag.
Are there Coach 3 digit styles?
TIA.
There ARE a lot of 3-digit style numbers but that isn't one of them. The fourth digit either wasn't stamped correctly or has worn off. The bag is one of two Legacy East Perforated Hobos and is probably either 9217 or 9218, and that line was introduced in the Holiday 2000 catalog and the style numbers are all in the same sequence and within 10 numbers of each other..
The second bag doesn't look the slightest bit familiar and with only one photo and no creed or serial number photos I wouldn't touch it with a ten-foot pole. There is not, nor was there ever, anything similar with a -301 style number, and the details of the bag aren't correct for any style that would have been made when Coach was using 3-digit style numbers. The seller also has 4 or 5 Negatives and Neutrals because of bags and clothing that, in the words of more than one buyer, "reeked of cigarette smoke". I can't prove that it's fake but from the picture and the "style number" listed by the seller it's very probably fake. "-301" is a number often found in Korean fakes. It could also have been found in a bag made before 1994 but that purse doesn't look anything like any bag from that time period and NONE of the details match anything done by Coach, then or now.