That's fine, thanks so much Hyacinth!You've been most helpful with your advice and I really appreciate it. I have resized them, I think that might have been the problem. Using a newer camera recently so that must be it. I was going to post more pictures but I couldn't post more than two, actually crashed my browser a couple times.
ush: I'll post more pictures, I took a look at the Coach authentication thread and will post pictures of the creed and serial numbers as they require.
I definitely would not sell a fake bag, I hear you. I wanted to check out the ID forum first and see what I was working with here. Are the bags with the double C logos are signature bags? I will definitely post my bags over there as well if you advise so, if I should get another opinion on the authenticity, it seems you know your stuff though. I just definitely don't want to sell a fake and would return them if they were and advise the owner exactly as you advised me.
Both are genuine, the first is called a 24cm Signature Duffle made in 2012, the second is a Small Slim Duffle Sac from 2004.
It's best to authenticate a bag before you ask about it in the Identification thread. Whateve, BeenBurned, Noshoepolish and I post at both forums so there's no need to post in more than one place. That's called "cross-posting" and is strongly discouraged because it creates too much confusion and wastes both the poster's and the authenticators' time and wastes forum bandwidth. If whoever is authenticating knows the name of the bag, she or one of the other experts will put it in their reply. And a bag has to be genuine before it deserves a name. If the experts in one forum think that your question could be better answered in another forum, they'll suggest that you either re-post at that forum or thread, or post a link there back to your original post to ask others for advice.
Signature bags are C pattern bags, but there are many different Signature patterns and designs. There were two or three all-leather bags in the late 1990s that Coach also called "Signature" but that was several years before Coach even made any C pattern fabric or leather bags - the Signature C fabric bags as we know them weren't introduced until 2000, and none of them were made in the US. Originally almost every one of them was made in China although there were a few exceptions.
There's more history and information in the six Salearea Coach Guides that are posted at Ebay. Be extremely careful when reading most internet or Ebay "guides" especially if they advertise themselves as "authenticity guides", since NO information that's ever been posted in a Guide can ever prove a Coach is genuine. Most of them are full of misinformation, incomplete and outdated examples, and just plain lies and BS. I can personally vouch for the information in the Salearea Guides, I know the researcher as well as I know myself. (COUGH)
SALEAREA GUIDES
http://search.reviews.ebay.com/members/salearea_W0QQcpnameZmembersQQprZsaleareaQQuqtZg
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