Can someone help me identify this bag? Came from here: https://www.mercari.com/us/item/m19047900508/
12.5 x 14 x .5
12.5 x 14 x .5
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I can't read the code except the first 2 style number digits look like 83**. Googling "Coach girlie leather" found these, both are style 8312 and both look genuine:
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The creed patch in the Ebay listing actually says "lamb nappa" leather, not calfskin or glove tanned. Nappa is thinner and softer.
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Please post an actual link to a listing you think is fake or the seller's Closet.
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A bag that size should always have a serial number. And the calfskin styles I've seen always have fabric linings.
Can you post photos of the inside showing the full zipper end to end? And also any top zipper and zipper pull, if it has one? It doesn't look like anything I've seen before. It has a Bridle Bag style creed but doesn't have the unique details of the Bridle bags. We've seen "one-off" fakes with Italy creeds before. There's a slight chance that it might be a sample but there's NO way to authenticate samples, whether or not they ever saw production.
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Wow, thanks for the finds! I never knew coach used lambskin for their purses until nowI can't read the code except the first 2 style number digits look like 83**. Googling "Coach girlie leather" found these, both are style 8312 and both look genuine:
Vintage Coach Black Girly Leather Shoulder Bag | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage Coach Black Girly Leather Shoulder Bag at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!www.ebay.com
The creed patch in the Ebay listing actually says "lamb nappa" leather, not calfskin or glove tanned. Nappa is thinner and softer.
I can't read the code except the first 2 style number digits look like 83**. Googling "Coach girlie leather" found these, both are style 8312 and both look genuine:
Vintage Coach Black Girly Leather Shoulder Bag | eBay
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Vintage Coach Black Girly Leather Shoulder Bag at the best online prices at eBay! Free shipping for many products!www.ebay.com
The creed patch in the Ebay listing actually says "lamb nappa" leather, not calfskin or glove tanned. Nappa is thinner and softer.
I think it's 8117, discussed just a few days ago:
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I think it's 8117, discussed just a few days ago:
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Thanks, BB, I hoped your magic Photo Sharpening program was still working!
The 8312 is definitely Nappa Leather, it's in the list I posted a few days ago as "Girlie Nappa Hobo maybe".
I don't have any drilldown photo or name for 8117, just a creed pic for that number describing it as Natural Cowhide Leather so I can't help much with that one. There aren't any results on Google either.
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The lining feels like that of an old Gucci. The pocket lining is like a Sheridan. The bag has no closure.
I just don't have a good feeling about that bag. There are too many different non-Coach fabrics and colors used on the inside and the leather zipper pull on the pocket looks wonky. The pocket zipper doesn't even look like it has "stops" on either end. It's not what I would expect from a production Coach, and looks more like one of those "breakaway" fully-separating zippers that Coach sometimes uses on tote bags where you need both hands to re-fasten the zipper.
At best it might be a sample. But if so, it never went into production, and I can see why. The design doesn't look very practical, it's just too skinny. There isn't much that would fit in it, even a wallet would make it look lumpy. The strap buckles could go back to the late 1990s when Coach was making all kinds of skinny and impractical bags like the Hippie line that had the same problem, they were just too darned thin. The laptops from that time period wouldn't fit in that bag very well either, they were thicker and heavier than today's laptops since most of them had CD and even floppy disk drives.
Sorry I can't give you better news.
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Thanks so much for all the details! It does seem very impractical.
That inside zipper rang alarm bells the minute I saw it. It looks unfinished. Although I have seen other nylon zippers in Coach bags without a stop at one end. Based on what appears to be the time period of the bag (the buckles, the Gramercy like lining, the creed wording), I'm surprised to see an inside leather zipper pull. It appears there is edge coating used, which also doesn't fit the time period.
A question just to make sure I got this information correct. TIA
I wanted to know when the hang tags started to be used on all bags, not the round ones the ones still used now.
What I found is that they started in the early 70s. Now, the metal tag bags were mostly from the 60s, some early 70s.
So would be OK to assume that the metal tag bags didn't necessarily have hang tags?
I wanted to know when the hang tags started to be used on all bags, not the round ones the ones still used now.
What I found is that they started in the early 70s. Now, the metal tag bags were mostly from the 60s, some early 70s.
So would be OK to assume that the metal tag bags didn't necessarily have hang tags?
