It's hard to judge the color of the bag from your pics but I actually believe the color of your Blake is "Bark" from Fall 2004. Pomegranate had brown canvas lining and Brick had brown suede but a different nameplate. HTH!.
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It's hard to judge the color of the bag from your pics but I actually believe the color of your Blake is "Bark" from Fall 2004. Pomegranate had brown canvas lining and Brick had brown suede but a different nameplate. HTH!.
Melly said:It's hard to judge the color of the bag from your pics but I actually believe the color of your Blake is "Bark" from Fall 2004. Pomegranate had brown canvas lining and Brick had brown suede but a different nameplate. HTH!.
Well, that's a new one I haven't heard! Do these pics help?
AbbytheBT said:
I seem to have a mystery color! It's definitely red, though a bit of a dark, muted red, whereas your Bark is definitely brown.
On mine, there's "Made in Italy" stamped on the suede itself above and to the right of the interior zip pocket, but no season tag in the pocket. The lining looks maroonish brown, though in the front section, it looks more brown.
I love the color, whatever it is, but would love to know the name of it and what season it's from!
Hmm based on your more recent pics I guess it doesn't look like Bark. Your bag wouldn't have a season tag though because they didn't show up until 2005. Honestly, I'm a bit stumped.
Melly said:Hmm based on your more recent pics I guess it doesn't look like Bark. Your bag wouldn't have a season tag though because they didn't show up until 2005. Honestly, I'm a bit stumped.
I'll be honest, it's hard to capture the color in photos - it's a chameleon depending on the light. So's the lining. Here's the bag with and without flash. It photos 'brighter' than in person - it's a pretty dark red with the stitching matching the lining in a maroonish brown color. The lining looks brown with flash, but maroon without. It's a head scratcher!
Thank you! Sorry for all the questions/requests. *sigh* Well the best I can come up with is that you have a sample bag in Pomegranate. They may have been considering suede for that color (like the rest of the colors in Fall 2004) but changed their minds and switched to canvas for production. 
ooh! interesting! i always had wished POM had suede lining instead of canvas...i had totally forgot about that melly. i didn't even think about the suede/canvas lining difference...and i've owned POM before too...thanks for bringing it up...i wonder what season/part of 2004 2005 he started changing the linings...
Melly said:Thank you! Sorry for all the questions/requests. *sigh* Well the best I can come up with is that you have a sample bag in Pomegranate. They may have been considering suede for that color (like the rest of the colors in Fall 2004) but changed their minds and switched to canvas for production.
Maybe that explains the employee sale silver Sharpie X in the inner pocket is because it's a sample? Regardless...pretty cool! A Pomegranate with suede lining...I feel like I have something even more special now!
Sorry for the brain stumper, but thanks so much for taking a look!!
If I remember correctly, he started out with suede linings, switched to canvas in 2003, switched back to suede in 2004 and then back to canvas in mid-2008. Pomegranate (for some reason - maybe it was an exclusive?) is the exception in that is canvas lined in Fall 2004.
2006 and 2007 was canvas too no? or that weird raincoat stuff..2007 more-so...the fall 06 bags were a mix of leather and canvas..
I was mainly referring to soft calf bags. The rest of the line didn't always follow that formula. But for non-soft calf you are correct, they started appearing in canvas & occasionally leather (
) in 2006.
ah okay. so soft calf is categorized separately...makes sense for consistencies sake...
i love learning new stuff! 
thanks melly
i love learning new stuff! thanks melly