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#9,871
Canderson22 said:
Oh Coach expert ladies....! :) What does the IR in front of the style number mean on this tag? I thought it signified reversible but apparently this bag isn't reversible. We don't have a creed pic yet but trying to get one. I'll post in the authenticate forum once I get more info...I'm asking for a friend who isn't a member.

Thanks!

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It could also mean Irregular, although none of the bags we've seen stamped that way have any obvious irregularities.
 
#9,872
BeenBurned said:
Since Coach hasn't ever been transparent in disclosing why it does what it does, most of the information we have is based on hypothesis and educated opinions.

My thought is that bags with the "IR" tags and/or creeds were bags that may have been either made for or sent to the outlets prior to "F" style numbers and/or bullets.

There are quite a few 5XXX styles with IR stamped in the serial number.

This one also has a bullet:
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Interesting!! Apparently this bag does not have the IR stamped on the creed. Hard to see in this photo but my friend confirmed its not there. So it's only on the tag.

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#9,873
Canderson22 said:
Interesting!! Apparently this bag does not have the IR stamped on the creed. Hard to see in this photo but my friend confirmed its not there. So it's only on the tag.

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I wish the creed photo was a bit clearer or closer.

All the other IR bags have had it stamped into the creeds (we've never seen any with the original price tags AFAIK), have been almost if not all from the Hamptons Weekend line from the mid-2000s, and going by the ones posted today seem to be mostly from the U plant.

The one you're asking about seems to be a remake of an early 2000s style but made in 2010, and with a 06348 style number. It's very possible that was one of the "Coach Classics" on the website and that not many of them were made, or in this case, remade.

I'm not sure why the IR code is on the tag unless it was stamped like that at the outlet, and the tag itself isn't the "full-feature" retail tag, it's missing the style name.

ETA - the serial number stamping is odd too, it's not the standard stamp from the # 71 plant in 2010. It looks more like the second one BB posted in post 9870, with a widely spaced prefix and a squeezed-together style number. This is as readable a copy as I can make:

If that's going to be posted in the Authenticate thread we're going to need a much better creed photo. I wouldn't mind seeing one posted here either.
 

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#9,877
fuzzymummy said:
I have a sun charm that I bought in store. I'll have to dig though mine but I could swear mine doesn't have any rhinestones on it. Did they come both ways?
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I don't remember seeing the same charm without the rhinestones but Coach sometimes remade them just for the outlets without a bit of the bling that had been on the full-price pieces. If you bought it in a Coach store it shouldn't be a problem, but I'd love to see a photo especially if you still have the price tag with the style number.
 
#9,878
fuzzymummy said:
I have a sun charm that I bought in store. I'll have to dig though mine but I could swear mine doesn't have any rhinestones on it. Did they come both ways?
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Hyacinth said:
I don't remember seeing the same charm without the rhinestones but Coach sometimes remade them just for the outlets without a bit of the bling that had been on the full-price pieces. If you bought it in a Coach store it shouldn't be a problem, but I'd love to see a photo especially if you still have the price tag with the style number.
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The outlet style is a keychain and doesn't have the stones. It's style 64296:

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#9,884
whateve said:
Thank you! I had the wrong numbers for the others in my files!

ETA: I think I got the wrong numbers from the Reference Library.
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These are the ones in the Holiday 1995 catalog, so the photo caption in the Reference Library is wrong unless Coach changed the numbers along the way.

ETA - apparently they DID - here's a pic from the Fall 1996 book just a year later, the Station Bag should have been # 1700, and the Duffle Sac and Daypack numbers have actually been changed - sorry about that!

(Unfortunately the scanned 1995 catalog doesnt include the page with the original numbers, so there's no way I can prove that I'm NOT going either crazy or blind...) See "coach, inconsistency, most consistent thing".
 

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Hyacinth said:
These are the ones in the Holiday 1995 catalog, so the photo caption in the Reference Library is wrong unless Coach changed the numbers along the way.

ETA - apparently they DID - here's a pic from the Fall 1996 book just a year later, the Station Bag should have been # 1700, and the Duffle Sac and Daypack numbers have actually been changed - sorry about that!

(Unfortunately the scanned 1995 catalog doesnt include the page with the original numbers, so there's no way I can prove that I'm NOT going either crazy or blind...) See "coach, inconsistency, most consistent thing".
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Wow, that is confusing! I wonder if only the Holiday ones came with the gift box, and they changed the numbers when they started selling them without the box. Like "G" stands for gift.
 
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