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#17,373
So the back story is, as some of you know, that two years ago I went to a flea market and picked up two water stained vintage bags , and oh, about two dozen bags later, . . .you get the drift lol . The woman I bought them from had mostly Vera Bradley. We started chatting and I told her I was interested in vintage Coach. She said sometimes she likes to clear out as much inventory as she by early winter. I said great, call me if you have any Coach. I don't hear from her. Until today. She asks if I am interested in any Coach. Her husband is ill and she isn't going to flea markets at the moment. She lives 10 min from me, and around the block from my sister. Got my stash, plus a funky VB kisslock for $80! I need to order more CPR!! The little mocha is an NYC bag!
 
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kstar54 said:
Hey everyone. I searched some and couldn't really find an answer. Will a bath help reshape a bag as well as clean it? I have a shmooshed 9170. I am currently conditioning it and using some weight on it to straightene it out.
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I will chime in, just remember to give a little thought to how you store your bags, so they don't develop *storage squash* or *storage slump* again! Seeing bags regain their shape is a favorite part of my rehab process.
Also, love your rehab station lol.
 
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Lake Effect said:
So the back story is, as some of you know, that two years ago I went to a flea market and picked up two water stained vintage bags , and oh, about two dozen bags later, . . .you get the drift lol . The woman I bought them from had mostly Vera Bradley. We started chatting and I told her I was interested in vintage Coach. She said sometimes she likes to clear out as much inventory as she by early winter. I said great, call me if you have any Coach. I don't hear from her. Until today. She asks if I am interested in any Coach. Her husband is ill and she isn't going to flea markets at the moment. She lives 10 min from me, and around the block from my sister. Got my stash, plus a funky VB kisslock for $80! I need to order more CPR!! The little mocha is an NYC bag!
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That's wonderful! Once I met a woman in an antique store and I told her I was looking for vintage Coach bags. She took my number and said she had some at home. We went to her house that night and came home with 6 bags, 4 very nice Coach bags, a fake, and an ink-stained bag I still haven't fixed.
 
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whateve said:
That's wonderful! Once I met a woman in an antique store and I told her I was looking for vintage Coach bags. She took my number and said she had some at home. We went to her house that night and came home with 6 bags, 4 very nice Coach bags, a fake, and an ink-stained bag I still haven't fixed.
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So even though my local thrifting is not as impressive as some people's , I have found enough to scratch that rehab itch. Still, I would not mind stumbling on an amazing HG bag for $20, just once . . .

I can't wait to work on this ink stain . . . Said no one :no:
 
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Lake Effect said:
So even though my local thrifting is not as impressive as some people's , I have found enough to scratch that rehab itch. Still, I would not mind stumbling on an amazing HG bag for $20, just once . . .

I can't to work on this ink stain . . . Said no one :no:
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I'm still waiting to come across a pony express in a thrift store. Although I did find a Bonnie Cashin once in an antique store for $20. One of my favorite bags came from a Goodwill, but it isn't a Coach. Most of my best finds are from ebay.
 
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whateve said:
That's wonderful! Once I met a woman in an antique store and I told her I was looking for vintage Coach bags. She took my number and said she had some at home. We went to her house that night and came home with 6 bags, 4 very nice Coach bags, a fake, and an ink-stained bag I still haven't fixed.
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Is that the trip you got that fabulous red Shouler Sac?
 
#17,382
Kell bell00 said:
Apologies if this is the wrong thread, I'm still learning but can anyone tell me the name of this bag? The style # listed is Y1060 which is confusing to me.

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.com/ulk/itm/323316894517
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That's just the seller's code for it. It isn't the style number. I had one of these once. It is very tiny. It was called something like a pocket pouch. You could post your question in the ID thread. https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...st-any-coach-item-name-questions-here.355205/
 
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whateve said:
Yes, leather creeds absorb water and can become hard to read. What I do is squeeze as much water out of the creed as possible, then blow dry it, not the rest of the bag, just the creed, until it is just a little damp. It's not a problem unless it absorbs a lot of water.

For ink, alcohol or acetone work. I find that pure acetone often works a little better than alcohol. The greater the percentage of alcohol, the better it works. I'm not sure how strong the alcohol is in alcohol pads. Sometimes they leave a ring so you have to wash the lining. You'll want to work on the ink before you wash the lining.
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Do you know if that could work in reverse to remove a monogram from a bag?
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I rarely use acetone or alcohol on leather as it tends to strip the color, and it usually looks worse. There is a thread somewhere on the forum, possibly in LV or Hermes, where a member removed a monogram from a bag. I can't remember how she did it. The impression where the monogram was, was still there, but the color was gone.
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The monogram I was thinking of is blind - it is just impressed into the leather - there is no color.

Years ago I bought this British Tan Companion Bag 9300 (made in NYC in the late 1980s) at the flea market for just $1, but it is monogrammed "MEC" and I don't know anyone with those initials. When I bought it I figured I would just cannibalize it and use the strap, hangtag, etc. for other rehab projects, but somehow I could never bring myself to destroy this lovely, clean, intact, vintage bag - so it is still sitting in my rehab pile.

I was just wondering if I could use some form of "water-logging" to obscure the monogram - just an idea.

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