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

TPF may earn a commission from merchant affiliate
links, including eBay, Amazon, and others

#47,869
IMPORTANT READ-ME

Please post authenticity questions related to COACH in this thread. No PMs please.
For further information, please refer to the first post on page 1 of this thread.

Please follow the following requests:
  • Before you submit a request for authentication, please search this thread to make sure that the item has not previously been authenticated by searching the seller ID and/or item number. This is not a thread to ask general questions about COACH, please refer to our main Coach forum for such information.
  • Note that authenticators have the right to refuse any requests. This is a free service, but it is imperative that you help our authenticators by using the following format:
  • FOR ITEMS LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Listing number:
    Seller and site where listed
    Link:
    Comments:

  • FOR ITEMS NOT LISTED ONLINE:
    Item:
    Where purchased or how obtained
    Comments:
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!
 
  • Like
Reactions: jenAC, joeesan, starlight1247 and 106 others
#21,556
Guccigaga said:
Hello girls:smile:
I am having trouble figuring out what this bag is called and also if it is authentic. Thank you in advanced:smile:
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/auctiongrove/reg1.JPG
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/auctiongrove/reg2.JPG
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/auctiongrove/reg3.JPG
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/auctiongrove/reg4.JPG
http://imgs.inkfrog.com/pix/auctiongrove/reg5.JPG
Click to expand...

If it measures about 12x8 inches it's a genuine Hudson Bag, style 4113, from the Lightweight line and made around 1991-93. It helps to give measurements when the bag has a vintage all-numeric serial number.
 
#21,557
Hello, I've been following the questions on the 1941 bags with interest and now I have one that I'm hoping can be solved.
I bought this regular chalk Dinky at Nordstrom Rack a couple months ago. The tag was missing the style and price sticker and a price was just hand written on it, so when they rang it up they just put the written price plus the CTR discount into the register.
Anyway, I decided to google the style number (38185) that is on the inside tag but the results came up as the burnished dinky. On Coach's website this chalk Dinky is still there but the style number is 55149 and the hardware is black copper while mine is gunmetal. I compared it to my other two Dinkys and the feel and quality seem the same. Let me know if you need more pictures. TIAIMG_1491686246.260767.jpgIMG_1491686261.958972.jpgIMG_1491686274.760770.jpgIMG_1491686285.535657.jpgIMG_1491686296.367727.jpgIMG_1491686308.766260.jpgIMG_1491686320.385378.jpgIMG_1491686331.268298.jpg
 
#21,558
Hi all, I would like to sell or gift this one so I need to get moving on it to capitalize on upcoming gradualtions/ Father's day. Please authenticate at your convenience, TIA.
In my possession, approx 16" x 11 1/2 " x 4"
image1 (12).JPG image1 (12).JPG image1 (14).JPG image1 (10).JPG image1 (8).JPG
 
#21,559
#21,561
Lucylu29 said:
Hello, I've been following the questions on the 1941 bags with interest and now I have one that I'm hoping can be solved.
I bought this regular chalk Dinky at Nordstrom Rack a couple months ago. The tag was missing the style and price sticker and a price was just hand written on it, so when they rang it up they just put the written price plus the CTR discount into the register.
Anyway, I decided to google the style number (38185) that is on the inside tag but the results came up as the burnished dinky. On Coach's website this chalk Dinky is still there but the style number is 55149 and the hardware is black copper while mine is gunmetal. I compared it to my other two Dinkys and the feel and quality seem the same. Let me know if you need more pictures. TIAView attachment 3661307View attachment 3661308View attachment 3661309View attachment 3661310View attachment 3661311View attachment 3661312View attachment 3661313View attachment 3661314
Click to expand...
Your pictures are VERY helpful.

I see no reason to believe your bag isn't authentic based on the pictures and where you bought it. (I don't believe that the Rack was victimized by a switcher in your case.)

I don't know where they came up with the 23698 style number as that's a style number of a backpack.

Your pictures give us information which until now, we didn't have. It's good to know that the 1941 collection bags have the cloth tag with production information and that's helpful in determining the "real" style number of these bags with (@Hyacinth 's term) bullshyte serial numbers on the creeds.

I hope you don't mind my saving your pictures for my records.

Just a comment on style numbers: All styles aren't on Coach's site and in this case, and when sold out, they usually remove it.

And this explains why you can't find it on the coach site: SOLD OUT:
http://www.coach.com/coach-designer...y-in-burnished-glovetanned-leather/38185.html

Mexican Coach site: http://mexico.coach.com/en_MX/coach...y-in-burnished-glovetanned-leather/38185.html

Italy: http://it.coach.com/en_IT/coach-des...vetanned-leather/38185.html?dwvar_color=OLL6I

Screen Shot 2017-04-08 at 6.39.01 PM.png
 
  • Like
Reactions: Taurusunshine_xx and Lucylu29
#21,565
Oh my. Excuse my blunder. Could someone help with authenticity on this listing from Poshmark. I usually stick to Rebecca Minkoff but would like to buy a vintage Coach. This is all the information I have on this bag.

Thank you!!
 
#21,566
Hyacinth said:
This has been talked about before, on January 8 and March 11 of this year, search tPF forums for "20315"... "20315" is one of those fake style numbers Coach pulled out of their arses a while back to use inside different Rogue styles. The number stamped on those creed patches doesn't mean diddly-squat and can't be used for authentication. There are no valid plant or production codes in that so-called serial number...
Click to expand...

BeenBurned said:
I'll be blunt. Coach is really pi$$ing me off! First they remove serial numbers from creeds and hide them on a cloth label hidden away in any one of a multitude of possible places in the bag, most often in the zipper pocket. Then they come up with the 1941 collection bags with style numbers that seem to be only on the price tag and a totally unrelated "style" number on the creed. Then they bring back some bags with date/plant code prefixes and style number suffixes. But wait! There's more! On some of the 1941 collection bags, they use different texts and formats than on others. On some 1941 collection bags, they have a possible (probable?) misspelled word. And where in the past, the more "Coach" was splattered on all the hardware was indicative of a fake, now it appears they're doing it to genuine items.....
Click to expand...

I remember there was some discussion of the games that coach seems to be playing with serial numbers but I forgot the specifics; thank you for the reference. And Coach is really pi$$sing me off, too!
 
Last edited:
#21,568
Hyacinth said:
Genuine, probably a Small Shoulder Bag, style 9530 from the early 1980s

View attachment 3661433
Click to expand...

Hyacinth said:
It's a Beekman Brief, if you need the name.
Click to expand...

Thanks Hyacinth! Always love the style, vintage, names, any info! And I have seen the Beekman name before but I never wrote it down and I always default to Bleekman! Noted. The insertion of Dominican Republic totally throws off the creed spacing, doesn't it??
The little orange girl was a total impulse auction-almost-ended buy. I lean toward medium to large bags. Pray God that is the last time I do that! I am a sucker for British tan / neutrals, burnt orange and soft/butternut yellows.
 
#21,569
BeenBurned said:
Your pictures are VERY helpful.

I see no reason to believe your bag isn't authentic based on the pictures and where you bought it. (I don't believe that the Rack was victimized by a switcher in your case.)

I don't know where they came up with the 23698 style number as that's a style number of a backpack.

Your pictures give us information which until now, we didn't have. It's good to know that the 1941 collection bags have the cloth tag with production information and that's helpful in determining the "real" style number of these bags with (@Hyacinth 's term) bullshyte serial numbers on the creeds.

I hope you don't mind my saving your pictures for my records.

Just a comment on style numbers: All styles aren't on Coach's site and in this case, and when sold out, they usually remove it.

And this explains why you can't find it on the coach site: SOLD OUT:
http://www.coach.com/coach-designer...y-in-burnished-glovetanned-leather/38185.html

Mexican Coach site: http://mexico.coach.com/en_MX/coach...y-in-burnished-glovetanned-leather/38185.html

Italy: http://it.coach.com/en_IT/coach-des...vetanned-leather/38185.html?dwvar_color=OLL6I

View attachment 3661413
Click to expand...

Thanks for the info. And, yes, of course you can save my photos for future reference.
 
  • Like
Reactions: BeenBurned
#21,570
Haughty said:
Oh my. Excuse my blunder. Could someone help with authenticity on this listing from Poshmark. I usually stick to Rebecca Minkoff but would like to buy a vintage Coach. This is all the information I have on this bag.

Thank you!!
Click to expand...

The bag looks genuine but we usually don't recommend buying from PM because they don't make any effort to remove reported fakes from their site.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top