Your skinny tote is stunning and looks brand new! It is just beautiful! I am loving all of the great photos on this thread.
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Your skinny tote is stunning and looks brand new! It is just beautiful! I am loving all of the great photos on this thread.
Those are very nice too! Beautiful bags. I have one here somewhere. I really should put it to work.
It's very pretty and I have a variation of a School Bag. I drove poor Hyacinth nuts with that one.
Very nice and the same color as mine. I do not want to do another big bag in that color though. It took me a long time to get mine done - partly because of time constraints - but the Mahogany Carrier was much easier.
I don't know if this was already discussed, but style 9441 was renamed in a later catalog as a Watermelon Satchel, and has a zippered top, I think the top on the 9440 Tote is open? Someone was asking about the Watermelon Tote over at Ebay's Fashion Discussion Boards, and poster "fashionclubgurl" posted catalog pictures of both the 9440 and 9441. It sounds like the pictures are from the 1981 and 1982 catalogs. According to the pictures and the post, both styles are the same size. The type of leather doesn't seem to make any difference.
http://community.ebay.com/t5/Fashion/Coach-Authentication-Bag-Creed-645-5112/m-p/23919281#M56435
I'll see if I can post the catalog pics.
ETA - got 'em, I think.
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Interesting! You can see from these pictures that 9441 has a leather covered kisslock frame. Our bags are pre-creed and have brass kisslock frames, but they have zippered tops. So do you think they are 9441 and they just covered the kisslock frame on the later versions?
I have NO idea. I've never owned either and don't know why Coach would have changed the name and number - just a change to the covering of the kisslock frame doesn't seem like a very good reason to change the name and style number of the entire bag, especially back in the 70s and early 80s when Coach may have only introduced one or two new styles a year, if that. Maybe the Satchel 9441 actually replaced the Tote because of some changes to the style that aren't mentioned in the catalogs. You ladies are probably in the best position to figure out the differences - good luck!
That's one reason why I stick mostly to late vintage (late 80s-early 90s) and classic (pre-China) styles, the earlier vintage bags will drive you nuts trying to make sense of them.
I have NO idea. I've never owned either and don't know why Coach would have changed the name and number - just a change to the covering of the kisslock frame doesn't seem like a very good reason to change the name and style number of the entire bag, especially back in the 70s and early 80s when Coach may have only introduced one or two new styles a year, if that. Maybe the Satchel 9441 actually replaced the Tote because of some changes to the style that aren't mentioned in the catalogs. You ladies are probably in the best position to figure out the differences - good luck!
That's one reason why I stick mostly to late vintage (late 80s-early 90s) and classic (pre-China) styles, the earlier vintage bags will drive you nuts trying to make sense of them.
I have both styles and apart from the leather on the kiss lock I can see no other differences. I'm surprised that you are surprised by this lack of sensibility by Coach, Hyacinth!
Dang it! More for the list! What's the style # for the organizer pouch?
ETA: never mind, I saw it on the catalog page.
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thank you! I hate unsolved mysteries but I love my early vintage bags! I also really love 90s and early 2000s classic leather.I have NO idea. I've never owned either and don't know why Coach would have changed the name and number - just a change to the covering of the kisslock frame doesn't seem like a very good reason to change the name and style number of the entire bag, especially back in the 70s and early 80s when Coach may have only introduced one or two new styles a year, if that. Maybe the Satchel 9441 actually replaced the Tote because of some changes to the style that aren't mentioned in the catalogs. You ladies are probably in the best position to figure out the differences - good luck!
That's one reason why I stick mostly to late vintage (late 80s-early 90s) and classic (pre-China) styles, the earlier vintage bags will drive you nuts trying to make sense of them.
I have both styles and apart from the leather on the kiss lock I can see no other differences. I'm surprised that you are surprised by this lack of sensibility by Coach, Hyacinth!
OMG, you're right! I should know better, shouldn't I?
(Seriously, since that was when the Cahns still owned the company, I'd expect a bit more common sense from them!)
I know, I was so looking forward to wearing her. In retrospect, I wish I had returned it, but I thought maybe I could rejig the strap but then realized more holes wasn't the way to go. Too bad, because it is in pristine condition. Do you know what the color is called? It's kind of a mint green color.