So expecting anyone to have that information available no matter how good their other qualifications are really just doesnt fit in with the actual facts. And even if you went to the biggest and most experienced public forum of experts on the internet (which it sounds like youve at least read part of even if you didn't post) off the top of my head there might be three, maybe four people at the most who might be able to identify and name that purse style. PREFECT8, how many people here at the largest collection of buyers and sellers in the world were even able to answer your original question about the name and style number of the purse? ONE. The cost alone would be prohibitive - copies of older Coach catalogs from before 2000 can go for as much as 20 to 40 dollars EACH on Ebay and someone would have to collect anywhere from 2 to 4 or 5 issues from each year statrting in the early 1970s to have a chance of finding most of the style names and numbers, and even then some are going to be missing. They didnt even have an online website until 1999 so expecting even a Coach collector or expert to know all the names and numbers of every Coach ever made is totally unrealistic.
All the information Ive collected on my own has been saved, one purse at a time, from looking through catalogs and from online sellers who may or may not have the right name. Even if someone calls Coach if they ask about the number or name of a purse more than 15 or 20 years old like the purse in the original post the chances are pretty good that even Coach doesn't have a record of it, except maybe deep inside their private files that only a few select employees have access to.Įxcept for their catalogs, Coach has never had any publicly-available lists of all their items names and style numbers.
Coach hasn't even kept an up to date archive of its style numbers and names over the years. I'm not trying to be argumentative either but do you see my point?
Of course, there are instances of AAA fakes or items where there are details that aren't definitive enough to determine authenticity and in those cases, the poster will be told that.īut again, to expect an authenticator (whether here or a professional paid authenticator) to know every style number of every bag or wallet ever made is asking the impossible. and in many cases, without ever having seen a bag, wallet, keychain, shoes, etc., with enough familiarity, it's absolutely possible to authenticate it. Linings, fonts, stitching, hardware, etc. If you've worked with/owned/bought/sold/carried/studied a brand long enough, there are details that you learn to recognize. Coach has been hundreds (thousands?) of styles of items in the last 40 years and its virtually impossible for anyone to know the name of every one and the year/years that style was made.Īnd in order to authenticate an item (as you've seen from the opinions you've received in your posts here), it's not necessary to know the name/dates/style numbers, etc in order to recognize authenticity. It's the style number that you were looking for.Īnd in answer to your question about authenticators knowing the style number and name of a style, in most cases, that's impossible.
just sayin'Īctually, your bag didn't have a serial number. I certainly understand why "other" information about a bag might require research and an additional fee/charge. Question: Shouldn't the authenticator know this ? It seems appropriate to expect the name and # of the bag. Just to say "it's an authentic Coach" seems unsatisfactory. I'll be honest, at the very least I expect the name and serial # of the bag they are authenticating.
Since my last post, A4U has provided the name of the bag and the serial #, which I very much appreciate.