OK my daughter took the purses to the Coach store in Concord CA to see if they could look at them. The brown one is a very good fake! The white one is real and was sold in the early to mid 80's.
I'm giving the brown one to my grandaughter and keeping the white since it is hard to come by an older model based on what the salesperson said.She actually was nice enough to look it up. I feel a lot better now as the white one was in a shop in Las Vegas and I paid over 500.00 for it.
I really learned something and also had my daughter take my favorite black purses and they are real so I'm happy about that. I wish I could remember where I got the brown one
Thanks for the lesson, I will be more careful from now on.
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