Authenticate This DOONEY & BOURKE

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I am sorry for on someone else's thread but I do not know how to start my own. Can someone tell me if this bag is real and how much it costs. I brought 3 bags of purses from a guy and this was in it
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Every DOONEY made since 1986 has the red white blue tag and serial number. Cat, please correct me if there are exceptions.
I'm no expert, but I've bought Dooney handbags in a Dooney retail boutique and couldn't find the tag inside.
These were from the Alto line which is made in Italy. I know the handbags were genuine. It's possible the tag was
sewn deep into a pocket, but I couldn't find it when I looked for it to copy the info onto the registration card.
This has happened more than once, and all within the last 10 years.
In addition, wallets don't seem to have serial # tags.
 
Hello ladies! Would you kindly authenticate this backpack, please? Looks like it could be either a Charm It or one from the Lindsey Lohan collection? Thank you!

Item: ?
Seller: Goodwill (in my possession)
Dimensions: about 8" across, 2 1/4" deep at the middle
Comments: The body feels like coated canvas, but the handle/straps feel like (and have water spots like!) leather

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Thank you. I did research and the tag looked out of place. And usually expensive purses have serial numbers so I was skeptical. How can you tell?

The little white tag on the inside pocket is a big red flag. Also the proportions of the bag are wrong, the zipper trim shape and zipper pull are wrong, the material appears to be vinyl or faux leather, the duck emblem appears to be glued on, and the duck is the wrong shape. Other details do not match the authentic bag I believe they were trying to copy, the Small Gladstone Satchel. To see what a genuine one looks like:
http://www.horsekeeping.com/Dooney/SAT/976-R90-gladstone-sm-bt.htm

Every DOONEY made since 1986 has the red white blue tag and serial number. Cat, please correct me if there are exceptions.

I'm no expert, but I've bought Dooney handbags in a Dooney retail boutique and couldn't find the tag inside.
These were from the Alto line which is made in Italy. I know the handbags were genuine. It's possible the tag was
sewn deep into a pocket, but I couldn't find it when I looked for it to copy the info onto the registration card.
This has happened more than once, and all within the last 10 years.
In addition, wallets don't seem to have serial # tags.

There is a good guide, linked below, discussing the red white and blue cloth tags, specifically regarding the original All Weather Leather bags, which were not made after about 2002. Some recent items, and probably all wallets, will not have a red white and blue tag.

http://www.horsekeeping.com/Dooney/Dooney-Bourke-char.htm
 
The little white tag on the inside pocket is a big red flag. Also the proportions of the bag are wrong, the zipper trim shape and zipper pull are wrong, the material appears to be vinyl or faux leather, the duck emblem appears to be glued on, and the duck is the wrong shape. Other details do not match the authentic bag I believe they were trying to copy, the Small Gladstone Satchel. To see what a genuine one looks like:
http://www.horsekeeping.com/Dooney/SAT/976-R90-gladstone-sm-bt.htm





There is a good guide, linked below, discussing the red white and blue cloth tags, specifically regarding the original All Weather Leather bags, which were not made after about 2002. Some recent items, and probably all wallets, will not have a red white and blue tag.

http://www.horsekeeping.com/Dooney/Dooney-Bourke-char.htm
Thank you. You are right the zipper closing it very different. The tag was the red flag for me. Where it was placed and what was left of the tag, the material of the tag felt really cheap. Like it was one of those made in China tags. the thing you use to close the zipper says k&k. I know the bag isn't real just wondering if Dooney and Bourke bags say that. These are the emblems
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Thank you. You are right the zipper closing it very different. The tag was the red flag for me. Where it was placed and what was left of the tag, the material of the tag felt really cheap. Like it was one of those made in China tags. the thing you use to close the zipper says k&k. I know the bag isn't real just wondering if Dooney and Bourke bags say that. These are the emblems
The zipper pull on the authentic Small Gladstone Satchel would be stamped Dooney & Bourke and would have a leather pull riveted on the end, like this:
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Here's a side by side comparison of the authentic and fake duck emblems. You can see the differences in the spacing and size of the letters, the placement of the hyphen, and the duck's body shape. The real duck has a nice sharp pupil in his eye.
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Hello ladies! Would you kindly authenticate this backpack, please? Looks like it could be either a Charm It or one from the Lindsey Lohan collection? Thank you!

Item: ?
Seller: Goodwill (in my possession)
Dimensions: about 8" across, 2 1/4" deep at the middle
Comments: The body feels like coated canvas, but the handle/straps feel like (and have water spots like!) leather

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It's authentic. The body is coated canvas. There were both a leather charms and a coated charms collection. The leather collection had solid blue lining and the coated ones have the cotton gingham lining. The leather bags were considerably rarer.
 
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