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#15,278
Busykitty said:
Does anyone know anything about this wallet. I believe the color to be ink. There is cotton ticking lining and silver hardware. It measures 3.75” x 4.25” closed.
thanks in advance!!
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That one worries me. Silver hardware wasn't available on handbags until the late 1990s although I'm not sure when it was available on wallets. But there's a stitching detail on that one that had been discontinued in wallets by the mid 1990s. The two details don't seem to go together in the same time frame. Was the hangtag attached to the wallet? The shape and construction of the base on the left side snap seems unusual too.

The only wallet style I can remember with a ticking lining was a really old checkbook cover I saw somewhere recently and really old items would have used brass hardware, at least for the snap. Ticking lining doesn't seem practical in the coin compartment because coins are such dirty little boogers.

ETA - Here's an example of what I mean. This is a very similar style, a Sonoma Compact Clutch from the mid 1990s. The credit card pocket edges are heat-sealed, not stitched (the long bill compartments still have stitched edges). Coach switched to heat sealing those edges beginning at least in the early 1990s. I don't remember seeing any wallets made after then that still had the credit card edges stitched. I'm still looking through my wallet photo files but so far I'm not seeing any wallets with silver hardware from before that time period. See what I mean about how the snap is attached differently on the two wallets. I'm just not comfortable with it but I'll keep looking through my photos.

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Here's a thumbnail of a wallet from 1992-93 showing what Coach's earlier stitched credit card pocket edges looked like. Note how much smaller the stitches are compared to the wallet being asked about:

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If someone has a catalog photo of that style with the same details as the one being asked about, please post photos.

More opinions are welcome.
 
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#15,281
Hyacinth said:
That one worries me. Silver hardware wasn't available on handbags until the late 1990s although I'm not sure when it was available on wallets. But there's a stitching detail on that one that had been discontinued in wallets by the mid 1990s. The two details don't seem to go together in the same time frame. Was the hangtag attached to the wallet? The shape and construction of the base on the left side snap seems unusual too.

The only wallet style I can remember with a ticking lining was a really old checkbook cover I saw somewhere recently and really old items would have used brass hardware, at least for the snap. Ticking lining doesn't seem practical in the coin compartment because coins are such dirty little boogers.

ETA - Here's an example of what I mean. This is a very similar style, a Sonoma Compact Clutch from the mid 1990s. The credit card pocket edges are heat-sealed, not stitched (the long bill compartments still have stitched edges). Coach switched to heat sealing those edges beginning at least in the early 1990s. I don't remember seeing any wallets made after then that still had the credit card edges stitched. I'm still looking through my wallet photo files but so far I'm not seeing any wallets with silver hardware from before that time period. See what I mean about how the snap is attached differently on the two wallets. I'm just not comfortable with it but I'll keep looking through my photos.

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Here's a thumbnail of a wallet from 1992-93 showing what Coach's earlier stitched credit card pocket edges looked like. Note how much smaller the stitches are compared to the wallet being asked about:

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If someone has a catalog photo of that style with the same details as the one being asked about, please post photos.

More opinions are welcome.
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Oh no! Maybe these will help. I have an Aqua Zip Around Clutch Wallet from maybe a year or so before Ink came out with the same stitching on the ticking lined pockets.
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The little hangtag was just attached to the wallet with a chain.
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#15,283
Busykitty said:
Does anyone know anything about this wallet. I believe the color to be ink. There is cotton ticking lining and silver hardware. It measures 3.75” x 4.25” closed.
thanks in advance!!
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Hyacinth said:
That one worries me. Silver hardware wasn't available on handbags until the late 1990s although I'm not sure when it was available on wallets. But there's a stitching detail on that one that had been discontinued in wallets by the mid 1990s. The two details don't seem to go together in the same time frame. Was the hangtag attached to the wallet? The shape and construction of the base on the left side snap seems unusual too.

The only wallet style I can remember with a ticking lining was a really old checkbook cover I saw somewhere recently and really old items would have used brass hardware, at least for the snap. Ticking lining doesn't seem practical in the coin compartment because coins are such dirty little boogers.

ETA - Here's an example of what I mean. This is a very similar style, a Sonoma Compact Clutch from the mid 1990s. The credit card pocket edges are heat-sealed, not stitched (the long bill compartments still have stitched edges). Coach switched to heat sealing those edges beginning at least in the early 1990s. I don't remember seeing any wallets made after then that still had the credit card edges stitched. I'm still looking through my wallet photo files but so far I'm not seeing any wallets with silver hardware from before that time period. See what I mean about how the snap is attached differently on the two wallets. I'm just not comfortable with it but I'll keep looking through my photos.

View attachment 4983927


Here's a thumbnail of a wallet from 1992-93 showing what Coach's earlier stitched credit card pocket edges looked like. Note how much smaller the stitches are compared to the wallet being asked about:

View attachment 4983951


If someone has a catalog photo of that style with the same details as the one being asked about, please post photos.

More opinions are welcome.
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On my lunch break. Put aside the ticking and the heat seal, this is what I got:
From the 1999 Preview catalog . . . image.jpg

And from the Eddie edition, Coach for the Holidays (prices good thru 3/99). . .
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