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Sheesh, are those people even able to put their hands in their back pockets and find their backsides? How many mistakes "authenticating" Coach products by My Poupette does that make now, I wonder? Are they in some kind of competition with Entrupy for "Most Mistakes By A 'Professional' Coach Product Authenticator"?
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Hi, I'm stumped on this one, can anyone help ID? I feel like I SHOULD have this in my files! No measurements are given.Thank you.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brown-coach-purses-handbags-used-/372682629536
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Brown-coach-purses-handbags-used-/372682629536
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Thanks! I was looking at the Lewiston, but the description says "inside zipper pocket," and this one has a slip pocket inside.
Could it be Carnival with pics at a weird angle? Carnival is more rectangular in real life.
Just from eyeballing it (looking at the proportion of the front pocket as compared to the top and bottom of the bag, and the rounded upper top), from your famous Toaster collage lol, I would lean toward the Camera bag. Were you the lucky winner?
Oooh, thanks, I always forget about the Carnival. I found a pic of it that shows it with a skinny clip-on strap, though, and it's more rectangular, like you say.
Carnival BagOh yeah, the Toasters! LOL.
A Camera Bag it might well be, but my pics show two outside pockets on the Camera Bag 9760. The mystery bag only has one outside pocket.
Camera BagYes, I did win it, so when it comes I'll have to measure it and see if that helps narrow it down.
Thank you both!
Hmm, my Carnival (or, the bag I thought was a Carnival) has the same strap as City in terms of width and attachment. Mine looks like the one in this listing https://poshmark.com/listing/Coach-Vintage-Brown-Carnival-Crossbody-9925-5bd235ff7386bc439bae3be6
Now I wonder if there were different “generations” of Carnival. I googled the image and most of the bags indeed have the thin strap with dog leash clips.
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Hmm. Unfortunately, the one in the Poshmark listing is fake. You might want to have yours authenticated if you haven't already.
LOL! I came to say the same thing. (I had a carnival with the skinny clip strap too.)
Coach's catalog description only mentions one outside pocket - "a convenient outside pocket" is how they describe it. My money's on a Camera Bag.
ETA - Could you post the photos of the bag you mentioned?
From a 1987 catalog:
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It's shown in this post:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads...-questions-here.355205/page-922#post-33144891
Yes, I saw that. I was asking to see pictures of both sides showing both pockets, plus the creed if there's a pic of that too.
ETA - Catbird9 may have copied the photos from the Photobucket link in this series of posts from May 2012:
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/authenticate-this-coach.694619/page-732#post-21989288
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/authenticate-this-coach.694619/page-733#post-21989623
and
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/authenticate-this-coach.694619/page-733#post-21991442
where I posted :
"#1 has me stumped. It might be a Camera Bag style 9760 from around 1988 although there's almost no information on it and it only mentions one outside pocket instead of two. But that's as close as I can come. I don't have anything even close to a complete record of the bags made during that time period so I'm really just guessing."
Since the Photobucket link isn't working there's no telling what the bag actually was, and I mentioned that the bag in the pics had 2 outside pockets where the Camera Bag only mentioned one. So apparently the pics weren't of a Camera Bag.
ETA - Here's a bag on Etsy that I identified as a Camera Bag 2 years later with just the one outside pocket;
https://www.etsy.com/listing/181891918/vintage-coach-crossbody-purse-red?show_sold_out_detail=1
The Camera bags we've looked at since then have all had photos showing just one outside pocket, so Catbird9 unfortunately chose the wrong set of photos to save. Here's a more accurate listing if anyone else wants to save photos of the 9760 Camera Bag, the photos on the main listing page still seem to be working:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/VINTAGE-COACH-TAN-LEATHER-CROSS-BODY-MESSENGER-SHOULDER-BAG-No-085-4620-/391256614834?nma=true&si=F341X01yHXq2%2FkX0KAXAZgpN240%3D&orig_cvip=true&nordt=true&rt=nc&_trksid=p2047675.l2557
or the ones on this Etsy page might still work:
https://www.etsy.com/listing/181891918/vintage-coach-crossbody-purse-red?show_sold_out_detail=1
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Thank you Hyacinth! I see what I did. The bag I mentioned was a Camera Bag that I sold a while back. I thought it had two outside pockets because, I now realize, I was looking at two different pictures of the same side of the bag.
I looked at the pictures just now and discovered the picture I'd missed before: the OTHER side of the bag with no pocket. OK. so the bag I originally asked about is most likely a Camera Bag. Whew!
Thanks everyone!