COACH bracelet authentic or fake ???

[noclue202]

[fashionclubgurl]

Theres really not enough details on the bracelet to tell. But what bothers me is why would a company like Coach or whatever jewelry company (maybe Carolee?) would stamp not just their name but the silver purity mark 925 on an outside part of the bracelet where people can see it instead of on the inside? Ive never seen that on any bracelet, much less anything from Coach, and Ive bought a lot os sterling jewelry in my life. I would never buy a piece marked like that.

[fashionclubgurl]

Just to add, the Coach stamp looks a little sloppy, the 2 Cs dont even match.

Any chance this is from China?

[albertabrightalberta]

I'd commented here earlier.
https://community.ebay.com/t5/Jewelry/COACH-925-Bracelet-Authentic-or-Fake/m-p/29933525#M757

I've seen some sterling pieces but I agree that the stamping font and location don't seem right to me. 

I've enlarged the markings and the more I look at it, the more uncomfortable I feel. 

[albertabrightalberta]

Okay, I'm back with a comp. I took a couple of pictures of my own bangle. Note that this is NOT sterling/925 but AFAIK, I would expect the font to match. 

Both pictures are of the same bracelet.

[fashionclubgurl]

Thaks alberta, your close up makes it even more obvious. That wasnt made or authorized by Coach, the stamping is a mess and no legitimate company would have sold that. Even the surface of the silver itself looks like it was made in someone's garage, there's no polishing or finishing like Id expect from any professional manufacturer. That rough look isnt just from wear and tear, its from cheap construction. Again the name China comes to mind.

And its just not the kind of thing Coach would make. When they make or authorize a major company to make their jewelry, theyre going to put their name or logo on it so people know its a Coach piece. Theres nothing like that here, it looks as phony as some of the stamps weve seen in really bad fake Foach purses.

Fake fake fake.

noclue202, if you bought that recently, get your money back.

[noclue202]

Hello  Again -   As a vintage solid silver bracelet, the finish would show some surface wear and dings, as silver is soft.   I Thank You for your opinions.   However I still might search to see if Coach put out enameled silver jewelry in the 1970s or 1980s era, which this piece might date to.     Sincerely, noclue202

[fashionclubgurl]

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@noclue202 wrote:

Hello  Again -   As a vintage solid silver bracelet, the finish would show some surface wear and dings, as silver is soft.   I Thank You for your opinions.   However I still might search to see if Coach put out enameled silver jewelry in the 1970s or 1980s era, which this piece might date to.     Sincerely, noclue202

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I can tell you that right now. They didnt. Coach didnt start "making" jewelry until the early 2000s and I have the catalogs to prove it. Their jewelry was and probably still is made by Carolee. Theres nothing like that bracelet in any of my catalogs. I have a sterling charm bracelet, a pair of sterling earrings and even a sterling starfish keychain from Coach and none of them have any kind of stamping thats as sloppy as whats on your bracelet, even the teeny tiny 1/4-inch long Coach stamp on the inside of each mini hoop earring looks ten times neater than yours. The Coach logo stamped on all of them is the same basic design as the logo in the photo that alberta posted, the lines of the border are even, the letters match, and the "925" purity mark actually looks like the numbers 925. Yours doesnt.

You can look until the cows come home but you wont find anything, at least nothing genuine. Why would you think a company with Coachs reputation would make something so unprofessional? Where exactly did you buy that bracelet and why cant you accept that it wasnt made by Coach?

And yup, I understand that silver is soft, Ive been buying real silver jewelry including genuine Native American pieces for almost 50 years. Soft is one thing, unpolished and rough-textured is another. Why are you here asking for advice if youre not going to listen to it?

[albertabrightalberta · Accepted solution]

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@noclue202 wrote:

Hello  Again -   As a vintage solid silver bracelet, the finish would show some surface wear and dings, as silver is soft.   I Thank You for your opinions.   However I still might search to see if Coach put out enameled silver jewelry in the 1970s or 1980s era, which this piece might date to.     Sincerely, noclue202

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As explained, there's no such thing as "vintage" Coach jewelry because none of it is vintage yet. (20 years old is what's considered vintage.) 

I'm a fan of side by side comps as a way to more clearly show differences. 

The first picture shows your "925" stamp vs. the authentic 925 stamp that is on a Coach sterling keychain. 

The next pictures show comparisons of your "Coach" logo compared to that on two different authentic Coach items. 

The second picture shows your "COACH" stamp vs. the authentic Coach stamp on a Coach sterling keychain hangtag.  

The third picture shows your "COACH" stamp vs. the authentic Coach stamp that is on a Coach bangle. 

[albertabrightalberta]

I have another suggestion @noclue202.

Do an ebay search for "Coach Sterling Silver Logo 1941 Bangle Bracelet" to compare the markings of a silver bangle. The pictures aren't super clear but they're clear enough to see whether the markings are anything like yours.

[noclue202]

Thank You ALL for your help!     I was not aware that Coach jewelry is only from the contemporary era.   

I agree that it cannot be genuine Coach.     Thanks again! noclue202

[fashionclubgurl]

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@fashionclubgurl wrote:

Theres really not enough details on the bracelet to tell. But what bothers me is why would a company like Coach or whatever jewelry company (maybe Carolee?) would stamp not just their name but the silver purity mark 925 on an outside part of the bracelet where people can see it instead of on the inside? Ive never seen that on any bracelet, much less anything from Coach, and Ive bought a lot os sterling jewelry in my life. I would never buy a piece marked like that.

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Just to add to my comment in my previous post - this morning while using a silver polishing cloth on an old sterling and Baltic amber bracelet made in Poland that Ive had for probably 20 years, I actually found a tiny 925 stamp on the outside of the bangle instead of the inside, right near the open end. So apparently it could and did actually happen, but why the maker did it like that is still beyond my understanding.

The difference between the OPs and mine is that the one in mine was visually perfect and obviously made with a professional stamping tool. So in the interest of transparency, I just wanted to update my post.