Value of Coach Bag Bought in early 80s?

[AandT]

Hi. I hope this is the correct thread. Many, many years ago, while I was living in Chicago, I bought a Coach bag from Marshall Field's department store. For some reason, I never got around to using it and it is essentially brand new (or would that be "new old stock"?), still in its Coach bag. I'm wondering if anyone has any idea what its market value would be? It's not a big bag, just a plain mid-sized, rectangular bag with a zipper on top. Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

 

[Hyacinth]

Hi. I hope this is the correct thread. Many, many years ago, while I was living in Chicago, I bought a Coach bag from Marshall Field's department store. For some reason, I never got around to using it and it is essentially brand new (or would that be "new old stock"?), still in its Coach bag. I'm wondering if anyone has any idea what its market value would be? It's not a big bag, just a plain mid-sized, rectangular bag with a zipper on top. Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

There's no set value on any older bags, Coach or otherwise. You need to find a similar bag, which might not be easy since yours is in unused condition, at a site like Ebay and see what other bags of the same style sold for. We don't guesstimate selling prices here, like anything else on the secondary market, a preowned item is worth what someone else is willing to pay for it.

And before you sell any vintage bag you need to have it authenticated and identified, and you'll need to take and post photos. You can start at the Authenticate This Coach thread here in the Coach Shopping forum, read and follow the instructions in post number One of that thread.
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/authenticate-this-coach-see-first-post-for-format.889527/
Then go to the LAST most recent page of posts and post your question and photos in the Reply box under the last post on that page.

Just so you know up front, no selling, privately or otherwise, is allowed here at tPF so you'll have to decide on how and where you're going to sell it too.

 

[AandT]

There's no set value on any older bags, Coach or otherwise. You need to find a similar bag, which might not be easy since yours is in unused condition, at a site like Ebay and see what other bags of the same style sold for. We don't guesstimate selling prices here, like anything else on the secondary market, a preowned item is worth what someone else is willing to pay for it.

And before you sell any vintage bag you need to have it authenticated and identified, and you'll need to take and post photos. You can start at the Authenticate This Coach thread here in the Coach Shopping forum, read and follow the instructions in post number One of that thread.
https://forum.purseblog.com/threads/authenticate-this-coach-see-first-post-for-format.889527/
Then go to the LAST most recent page of posts and post your question and photos in the Reply box under the last post on that page.

Just so you know up front, no selling, privately or otherwise, is allowed here at tPF so you'll have to decide on how and where you're going to sell it too.

Thanks for the information. I'm not actually planning on selling it, was just curious as to its value. Thanks again.

 

[Aku_no_Hana]

Hi. I hope this is the correct thread. Many, many years ago, while I was living in Chicago, I bought a Coach bag from Marshall Field's department store. For some reason, I never got around to using it and it is essentially brand new (or would that be "new old stock"?), still in its Coach bag. I'm wondering if anyone has any idea what its market value would be? It's not a big bag, just a plain mid-sized, rectangular bag with a zipper on top. Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

If you're just curious, you could try a Google search with the serial number inside the bag and see what pops up.

 

[Hyacinth]

If you're just curious, you could try a Google search with the serial number inside the bag and see what pops up.

Vintage Coach bags made before 1994 don't have searchable serial numbers. Searching for a serial number that was unique to each bag is just a waste of time. The best thing for finding actual selling prices is the find the exact name of the style and search Ebay's Completed listings for what others of that style actually sold for.