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What is this bag? It is so cute with the zipper and the handle...
http://www.etsy.com/listing/47678408/vintage-chocolate-brown-leather-coach
Thanks!
http://www.etsy.com/listing/47678408/vintage-chocolate-brown-leather-coach
Thanks!
If it was authentic it would be a trail bag 9955 from the mid 90s. I don't think it is authentic. The zipper pull is wrong, the handle rings are too round and the handle is too fat. Someone bought it and probably doesn't know it is fake. This bag is very often counterfeited so you would need to get any you find authenticated. I've seen way more counterfeits than authentic. Here's mine.
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Thanks for the heads up. How is the zipper pull supposed to look? I can see that the handles are too flat. I will definitely be careful before purchasing this bag.
It is a shame that somebody bought a fake bag.
The zipper pull should look like most pulls on vintage bags, longer and narrower with a skinny ring attached to the zipper. You can also see in this picture how the rings for the handle are square. The handle tapers, getting wider in the middle. On almost all fakes, the rings are too round and the handle doesn't taper.Thanks for the heads up. How is the zipper pull supposed to look? I can see that the handles are too flat. I will definitely be careful before purchasing this bag.
It is a shame that somebody bought a fake bag.
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That's strange. It looks like some type of soho hobo and although I don't see anything screaming fake, unless the seller photoshopped the serial number (as if it's classified top secret), I can't read it at all. I've never seen a serial number in such a newish bag rub off like that.
I don't believe the chain strap is original to the bag but please wait for other opinions on the style name and number.
http://www.etsy.com/listing/172817677/vintage-coach-purse-beautiful-caramel?ref=shop_home_active_8
I've seen this bag before. I don't know if this is the exact same bag. I was going to ask about the chain strap. I think it might have been on ebay about a month ago. It's not in my watch list anymore.
I remember that one too, because it looked like the chain at the top of the strap would be really uncomfortable like that, and wouldn't stay on your shoulder very well. But I never really looked for it, especially with no readable serial number. It almost looks like the creed says it was made in Italy.
Wouldn't a bag that size have a serial number?
A friend wrote to the seller who claims that the purse forum says that not all Coach bags have serial numbers and this is one that doesn't have one.
It looks like it's big enough to have had one but the seller isn't listing any measurements.
The open space at the bottom of the creed is too large for it NOT to have had a number.
And the strap isn't original or it's been chopped or modified - look at the ends where the chain attaches, the second picture shows it perfectly. The link on one end is D-shaped and the other is rectangular. NO Coach would ever have mismatched links like that. Something is really hinky about that strap.
In fact it's even possible that the whole lining might have been taken out of a genuine Coach and put in this one, and maybe the creed switched too. Read the creed - it DOES say it was made in Italy, and the description mentions "Gentle tumbling provides(?) a distinctive texture with natural grain variations" - it sounds EXACTLY like a Sonoma creed, NOT a smooth leather one. Coach didn't "gently tumble" their smooth leathers. Compare the wording to the Sonoma creed below.
Look at the last picture, at the underside of the strap on the left side, the area between the top buckle hole and the ring the chain is attached to. Look at the stitching. And WHY would Coach ever attach a chain to a long squared ring where the chain link is going to keep sliding around?
And look at the left side of the zipper in the creed pic, that zipper end is wide open, that's really sloppy detailing. That bag might not even be a Coach, it's either a patch job from at least 2 and maybe three different bags, or an out-and out FAKE.
If someone's actually thinking of buying that POS, they're better turn around and run like hell. I don't remember who's asking about this one and why but they better rethink it. " TheMysteryAttic " sounds like a perfect name for that store, the mystery is how many other things are wrong with it.
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Thanks for the pictures and your knowledge. I looked at a few on eBay and I definitely see fakes!
