Thanks, the spaces are what I figured made it fake (that and made in USA instead of United States...also the strap didn't seem right) but I wanted to get it checked out first. The creed is really hard to read to in person so I missed the misspellings. Aside from the creed this was the best fake I've come across yet.
"Made in U.S.A" is a legitimate stamp but only on a small number of bags from around 1988 thru maybe 1991, mostly from the Lightweight line. Having that at the bottom of the creed doesn't mean the bag is fake. But misspellings and incorrect punctuation usually do - the people at Coach who set up those stamps knew how to speak and write American English correctly, unlike the crooks who made the fake copies and usually didn't speak English at all.
There are other problems, like the size of the letters in "Leatherware", but spelling mistakes or mistakes about what material the bag is made of shouldn't happen in genuine Coaches. There may be a tiny handful of creed mistakes that slip through, but 99.98 percent of bags with creed and serial mistakes are fake.
ETA - looks like "wBinkles" is on there too. Here's another fake creed with the same mistakes and stamped by the same stamp. I can't tell if your serial number ends in -534 or -531 but -534 is the usual way the fake number ends on all the other ones we've found so far. There are 8 spelling and punctuation mistakes just in the creed.
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