Featured Finds Thread

The making of rubies/sapphires .....

 

Thanks for looking guys, I can't work it out either!

 

I sure will, but right now, I have a NEW dog arriving in about 20 minutes..... SO EXCITED!!!! Will post pics in Rants & RAVES when she gets settled in!!!!! But pics of the Coach bag I'll post here......

 

yay! A NEW dog? Not VINTAGE nor ANTIQUE!
Waiting for the pics

 

Some are, some aren't. The old saddle leather ones are the easiest to sell because nobody fakes them. The more heavy leather there is in a bag, the more expensive to make, and the less attractive it is to knockoff artists. The fabric bags get faked left and right. I don't know values per se, but I do know that much!

..and I want doggie pix too. I'm mainly a cat person, but any old fur coat as they say.

 

OK, am finally back......Keeper (her name, and she is just THAT!!!!) is SUCH a worry-wort after her foster/rescue mom left......now a couple of hours later she is JUST beginning to slow down her pacing.....hahaha..... MIGHT be a LOOONG night!!!!!

So back to the COACH bag.....I found NO patch inside @SBSVC, which brings me to question if it's real.....even though I bought it in a COACH store in a Mall in Tilson, NH!!! It IS 9" wide, 7" in the middle, and 10" tall at each buckle. Here are the images:

 

That one's old enough that it doesn't have the patch. No way that's a Chinese copy.

 

I searched on: "may god be with you always" "navajo" "pottery"

The internet responded: Marjorie Joe.

 

@Jivvy You genius! I'd half wondered if it was Marjorie.

 

Pretty Coach bag. Love the color.

 

I picked up this plate the other day at the consignment shop in homage to Walter. I would never had even considered buying it if it weren't for him. I think it is fairly recent, but it will definitely sell for more than the $11.00 I paid for it. It is 11 3/4" across.



This one is just for me, me, me!!! I never thought I would own one these DeVilbiss Imperial bottles. It is 7 3/4" to the top of the hardware. It has damage, but nothing that anyone will see in my perfume cabinet. I am hoping a friend of my will help me find a replacement amethyst colored spear dangle to hang from the ring at the top.

 

Very pretty Peggy. Yes Walter taught us much and he is missed so.

 

Sorry, but that's just not true... Coach bags have had patches since at least 1980.

It's been quite a while since I worked with Coach bags, but I have my own "archive" saved on my computer. It looks to me as if Aqui's bag is a style #9950 Janice's Legacy bag.

I am very curious about the lack of a creed patch... Aqui, do you have an IDEA when you bought it? Was it purchased at a Coach Factory store?

Here's some info from my files about Janice's Legacy:
Coach #9950

A real Coach style #9950 is a Janice’s Legacy Leather Hobo Bag that measures about 8” tall x 9 ½” wide x 3 ½ front to back. It has piping on all edges and zips closed across the top. It has an adjustable leather strap about 42” in length with 4 grommets at each end; it attaches via square buckles on each side at the top of the purse. There are no seams on the front or back; there is one seam across the middle of the bottom. It is unlined with one main compartment inside, with a single slip pocket. Introduced in 1994; still made at least until 2006, and made for factory 2006, 2007. (Reissued 2012 @ $248)

1994 ad:

 

@SBSVC, from your description and looking at your image and again at my bag, I'd say your description of the Janice's Legacy: Coach #9950 is my bag! Which dates about right to my saying it's been hanging in the closet for about 25 years, and it was Tilton, NH, NOT Tilson, NH.....my error! I don't remember if it was a "Factory store", per se or not, just that it WAS definitely a COACH store in the MALL there!!! It was ALL pretty pricey about 25 or so years ago!!!! I had gotten rid of a HUGE one with a flip over top that my Mom had given me some time ago and just didn't like the size or weight of it any longer!! God knows, I probably gave it to Good Will or something like that back then!!!! So what's the decision, does it have any value at all?????

 

Sadly, Aqui, I think you've missed the "window" when vintage Coach leather bags sold for a higher price... I don't know that you could get much more than $25 for it today, but maybe you'll be lucky! (The lack of a patch MAY be an issue for some buyers...)

Here are a bunch on eBay:
https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_fr...n.TRS0&_nkw=coach+janice+legacy&_sacat=169291

 

Not to worry, I'll live, that's for sure, but HAPPY to at least find out and maybe be able to clear ONE MORE thing out of a closet!!!! NOW, THAT would be a bonus!!!!

DON'TCHA just LOVE eboor......went to check it out and of course got nothing but their advertising page......
but I know what to use!!!!

 

@SBSVC, I forgot to thank you for digging up that info on the COACH bag and letting me know!!!!! That also helps me to "let go"!!! So, THANK YOU!!

 

Cost a few pence from the rummage.

 

Bingo! I love finding unheralded hallmarked silver! Or gold of course.

 

& I can't understand who throws these out ........