*CLOSED* Authenticate This KATE SPADE
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Hi everyone! I'm skeptical about this Leewood Place - Mini Makayla bag in pink granite I bought.
The gold embossing seems slightly dull and not imprinted as deep in the leather as it looks on other pictures online:
The tags definitely look like the seller has attached their own on there (attached with thread instead of plastic string tag, different font on the price/barcode sticker, sticker isn't perforated, and the green tag just looks like a bad print):
There's also random spots of glue-like material:
More photos of interior:
And there's certain parts of the strap that don't look like they're constructed well:
There's a lot of red flags to me, but the purse still looks good in general, and the hardware looks polished and real. The purse came with a dust bag and care card as well. I can see a seller putting false tags on this, but I'm ultimately looking for the authenticity of the purse itself. The seller also has a 100% positive track record on eBay and offers a full refund if it isn't authentic, so that's why I had pulled the trigger in buying the bag. Appreciate any help in advance!
The gold embossing seems slightly dull and not imprinted as deep in the leather as it looks on other pictures online:
The tags definitely look like the seller has attached their own on there (attached with thread instead of plastic string tag, different font on the price/barcode sticker, sticker isn't perforated, and the green tag just looks like a bad print):
There's also random spots of glue-like material:
More photos of interior:
And there's certain parts of the strap that don't look like they're constructed well:
There's a lot of red flags to me, but the purse still looks good in general, and the hardware looks polished and real. The purse came with a dust bag and care card as well. I can see a seller putting false tags on this, but I'm ultimately looking for the authenticity of the purse itself. The seller also has a 100% positive track record on eBay and offers a full refund if it isn't authentic, so that's why I had pulled the trigger in buying the bag. Appreciate any help in advance!
(some more photos to my last post)
Was looking at the purse more and more, and the gold stamping really still puts me off.
There was some residual stickiness/glue near the stamping, and some parts of letters aren't filled all the way with gold, like the a and e in kate. The logo seems to just sit on top of the leather rather than having been stamped in; the p in spade is missing some gold at the groove of the pebbled leather.
I don't know their embossment process, but I was bugged by this because my one other purse that has the logo embossed looks a lot different where each letter is crisply stamped in. This one below is from the Madison Ave collection, but I'd think the quality would still be better on the Makayla mini I just bought?
Here are photos of the care card and dust bag as well.
For the care card, I was comparing it to that of a wallet I just got straight from the Kate Spade online store, and realized the two have a number of differences. On the left is the one from the Makayla in question, where the paper is slightly thicker than the authentic one on the right, and both booklets are bound differently.
The one booklets are different sizes as well, and the Makayla one looks like someone roughly cut it by hand (hard to show it in photo, but here it is).
Was looking at the purse more and more, and the gold stamping really still puts me off.
There was some residual stickiness/glue near the stamping, and some parts of letters aren't filled all the way with gold, like the a and e in kate. The logo seems to just sit on top of the leather rather than having been stamped in; the p in spade is missing some gold at the groove of the pebbled leather.
I don't know their embossment process, but I was bugged by this because my one other purse that has the logo embossed looks a lot different where each letter is crisply stamped in. This one below is from the Madison Ave collection, but I'd think the quality would still be better on the Makayla mini I just bought?
Here are photos of the care card and dust bag as well.
For the care card, I was comparing it to that of a wallet I just got straight from the Kate Spade online store, and realized the two have a number of differences. On the left is the one from the Makayla in question, where the paper is slightly thicker than the authentic one on the right, and both booklets are bound differently.
The one booklets are different sizes as well, and the Makayla one looks like someone roughly cut it by hand (hard to show it in photo, but here it is).
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I can't authenticate, but I can tell you it's Mulberry Street Alegra in Nutmeg (wlru3237) if you haven't found it already!
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Hi Guys,
Can you please help me with this bag I bought on Ebay. I am not sure about it as it does not look like it has some of the markings other authentic bags on here seem to have. I am providing the Ebay link along with my own pictures since I got this bag.
https://m.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Kate-...266542?txnId=1588620745013#vi__app-cvip-panel
Can you please help me with this bag I bought on Ebay. I am not sure about it as it does not look like it has some of the markings other authentic bags on here seem to have. I am providing the Ebay link along with my own pictures since I got this bag.
https://m.ebay.ca/itm/Vintage-Kate-...266542?txnId=1588620745013#vi__app-cvip-panel
Hmmmm... this is very difficult. I would say it's authentic... but maybe a factory second??? You're right in all the things you noticed-- the light, uneven ksny logo, the glue spots, etc. Did the seller tell you where they got it?
Thanks for your help and quick reply.
Any chance you know what year it’s from?
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