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Hi, y'all. I got a Coach bag recently in really rough shape. I rehab bags of all sorts on the regular but so far I've never dealt with this strap cracking. Can it be reburnished??? Any advice?

I apologize if this topic has already been addressed on here... I tried to look to see if anyone has posted about it before but couldn't find anything, but it is a HUGE thread, so I could have missed it.

Thanks y'all!
 
Hi, y'all. I got a Coach bag recently in really rough shape. I rehab bags of all sorts on the regular but so far I've never dealt with this strap cracking. Can it be reburnished??? Any advice?

I apologize if this topic has already been addressed on here... I tried to look to see if anyone has posted about it before but couldn't find anything, but it is a HUGE thread, so I could have missed it.

Thanks y'all!
Pictures?
 
Had anyone dunked a federal seal bag before? I am thinking about dunking it but I'm worried it will make the embossed seal disappear! Should I just CPR only? What do you experts recommended?
I've got one that needs to be dunked too. I won't have time to get to it until Christmas week but if you can hang on until then I will let you know what happens with mine.

ETA: unless someone here tells us not to...then I won't do it.
 
Hi everyone,

Just wondering if anyone has ever kept/used a fake Coach bag?

I won an ebay auction for a poorly listed Court bag without creed pics, that I bid on in the last few minutes of the listing ( so I didn't authenticate). I took the risk as it was a VERY cheap bag with reasonable shipping ( I live outside of the U.S.) I am getting more involved in vintage bag collecting and restoration and repair for my own use, and thought at least if the bag was fake I wouldn't feel bad about using it as a guinea pig for testing leather products, trying some stitching or even harvesting parts - things I would stress about with a real bag. ( I don't know if the bag is fake, but now that I look at the photos more carefully, I am a bit suspicious).

Has anyone here ever experimented on a Foach? Used fake parts on genuine bags? If I were to donate the bag to Goodwill at some point, can I cut out the leather cartouche/ remove the fake hang-tag and do so? I know if the bag is fake I can return to seller, but I might not bother if the bag is leather and actually can be used - just not passed off as a genuine item.

Thanks so much!
 
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