While I'm flattered that you're asking my advice on vintage bags, I'm not qualified to answer most of your questions. Both Hyacinth and DemRam are the real vintage and classic bag experts, with DemRam also having great knowledge of Bonnie Cashin bags.
With that said, I do have a few comments.
1. Regarding your post on April 20, I have a correction to make to the following: At the bottom of the page is a list of style numbers and names of most of the bags that have such a thing, of course style numbers were not assigned until 1994.
Prior to 1994, style numbers were assigned to bags but they weren't used as part of the serial number on creeds until 1994, but instead, random serial numbers were used.
2. Regarding your post on April16 concerning a fake bag you received that day, you stated: I got a pretty good quality fake vintage Coach today from e-bay. I thought I would document what it looks like for reference purposes. It is a good fake like I said, so it could probably fool most people.
Although some of the Korean fakes are decent quality leather bags, as far as being "good fake Coach" bags, that they definitely are NOT. They use invalid serial numbers, creeds have improper fonts and spacing and the fact that they are made in Korea is a dead giveaway that the bag is fake.
Coach has many rules and just about every rule has exceptions, but the one rule without any exception is the rule that says that Coach has NEVER made a bag in Korea.
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I'll defer to the real experts for further comments.
Good luck!
