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OK, I HOPE this is the right thread! I've spent a few hours reading around and this looks right..?

I have one Coach I need dated.. and the other I just want to know what it is.. And even worse.. I have no working dig cam at this time.. sorry!

So, descriptions.
The one I need dated is a court type bag. (from the Coach site). It is the heavy black soft leather, no lining. One zip pocket (zipper is YKK with a small bit of chain and a ring on it) and all the fixings are brass. Stitching is nice, even and tight.. (still!)
Inside credo reads: "This is a Coach bag. It is made out of a completely natural glove tanned cowhide. The scars scratches veins and wrinkles are natural markings characteristic of full-grained leathers. Made in the United States." This is all in caps and looks to be evenly spaced but hard telling... I don't have great lighting in this house. There is a small target shaped mark by this. The serial reads M4C-9870. Still have the leather pull tag it came with.

It was given to me a while ago by someone I no longer talk to. The latch has come a bit loose and I'd like to get that replaced.. but I want to be sure I still can/can at all before taking the day trip to the Coach store or spending an hour of my life on the phone.

The one that needs ID'd. Small, soft black leather, black stitching. Flap top and turn latch. Looks a lot like the court bag, but no handle on the flap and is smaller. Measures 7 inches wide, slightly less at the top, 6 tall and the base is 2-2 1/2 inches. Nichol hardware. One inside pull out flap pocket (in leather) and one outside invisible type pocket on the back (it's level with the purse top). No lining. Strap is sewn leather, not 'leash style'. All stitch work is good and even and there are no 'fake' indications. Had a leather pull tag.. but I tossed it as I did not know any better. Had this one for a while too.

Creed reads: 'This is a Coach bag. It was handcrafted in Costa Rica of completely natural glove-tanned cowhide. the variations in the grain are characteristic of natural full-grained leather.' (in all caps) Serial is H1P-9049
It is embossed on a pull out flap pocket (kinda like that SoHo bag early in this thread...)it may have a bullet on it.. hard to tell... again, this lil gal was a gift.

If you could even just send me to a working pic database I would be grateful! And if this is the wrong place, please accept my apologies!
 
#1,341
katsrevenge said:
OK, I HOPE this is the right thread! I've spent a few hours reading around and this looks right..?

I have one Coach I need dated.. and the other I just want to know what it is.. And even worse.. I have no working dig cam at this time.. sorry!

So, descriptions.
The one I need dated is a court type bag. (from the Coach site). It is the heavy black soft leather, no lining. One zip pocket (zipper is YKK with a small bit of chain and a ring on it) and all the fixings are brass. Stitching is nice, even and tight.. (still!)
Inside credo reads: "This is a Coach bag. It is made out of a completely natural glove tanned cowhide. The scars scratches veins and wrinkles are natural markings characteristic of full-grained leathers. Made in the United States." This is all in caps and looks to be evenly spaced but hard telling... I don't have great lighting in this house. There is a small target shaped mark by this. The serial reads M4C-9870. Still have the leather pull tag it came with.

It was given to me a while ago by someone I no longer talk to. The latch has come a bit loose and I'd like to get that replaced.. but I want to be sure I still can/can at all before taking the day trip to the Coach store or spending an hour of my life on the phone.

The one that needs ID'd. Small, soft black leather, black stitching. Flap top and turn latch. Looks a lot like the court bag, but no handle on the flap and is smaller. Measures 7 inches wide, slightly less at the top, 6 tall and the base is 2-2 1/2 inches. Nichol hardware. One inside pull out flap pocket (in leather) and one outside invisible type pocket on the back (it's level with the purse top). No lining. Strap is sewn leather, not 'leash style'. All stitch work is good and even and there are no 'fake' indications. Had a leather pull tag.. but I tossed it as I did not know any better. Had this one for a while too.

Creed reads: 'This is a Coach bag. It was handcrafted in Costa Rica of completely natural glove-tanned cowhide. the variations in the grain are characteristic of natural full-grained leather.' (in all caps) Serial is H1P-9049
It is embossed on a pull out flap pocket (kinda like that SoHo bag early in this thread...)it may have a bullet on it.. hard to tell... again, this lil gal was a gift.

If you could even just send me to a working pic database I would be grateful! And if this is the wrong place, please accept my apologies!
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You've come to the right place. :smile1:

There's a thread in the Coach Shopping Fourm called Answers to Authenticity Questions that has several posts explaining how to tell what year a Coach bag was made, as long as it's from 1994 or later. Bags from '94 to the present will always have at least one letter of the alphabet in the serial.

There's also a list of commonly-used fake serial numbers. It's a very long thread but it's worth taking some time to read, here's one of the serial number posts:
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-sh...henticity-questions-94198-18.html#post6416493

The serial number on the first one would indicate a Court Bag from 1994, assuming that it's genuine. For that, we'd need to see photos.

The second one's serial indicates a Tango Flap Bag from 2001, again we'd need to see photos to figure if it's genuine. Here's one from an Ebay listing:
 

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Originally Posted by Hyacinth Is it a really small bag, about 5x6 inches? If so, it's a Soho MacDougal Zip Bag. The serial number has a mistake hat we've seen on a few other Coaches from around that time.

Toonces said:
Yeah, it's small, but more like 9 L x 7 W x 5 D. Is the serial # mistake something to be concerned about? It is authentic, correct?
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Coach gives the measurements as 5" wide (side to side), 6"high, and 4" deep in their Holiday 1995 catalog, but their measurements have always been different from how other people measure them but that seems like a big difference. Can you check the creed stamp and see if any words are misspelled?

It looks ok at first glance but with the differences in the measurements and the creed "glitch" it's got me wondering now. Trouble is that I only have one small picture to compare yours to. Maybe someone else who's more familiar with that bag might be able to say yes or no.
 
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Hyacinth said:
You've come to the right place. :smile1:

There's a thread in the Coach Shopping Fourm called Answers to Authenticity Questions that has several posts explaining how to tell what year a Coach bag was made, as long as it's from 1994 or later. Bags from '94 to the present will always have at least one letter of the alphabet in the serial.

There's also a list of commonly-used fake serial numbers. It's a very long thread but it's worth taking some time to read, here's one of the serial number posts:
http://forum.purseblog.com/coach-sh...henticity-questions-94198-18.html#post6416493

The serial number on the first one would indicate a Court Bag from 1994, assuming that it's genuine. For that, we'd need to see photos.

The second one's serial indicates a Tango Flap Bag from 2001, again we'd need to see photos to figure if it's genuine. Here's one from an Ebay listing:
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Thanks muchly! I was confused by the lack of two numbers in the serial for the year. Felt it better to just ask so I finally registered. If I had a cam that still worked (got sand in mine recently.. bah!) I'd have pics. I'm curious to know for sure; since I bought neither of these. I will say that if they are fakes they are some nice fakes; they'd be nice bags unlabeled. The court bag in particular. Love it, even though the leather is heavy!
 
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what is this bag. name and style number. how much did/does it go for??? i MUST HAVE IT!!!
 

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