#GUCCI KEY CHAIN POUCH SERIAL NUMBER#

Gucci hardware varies greatly across its several handbag styles, particularly because the hardware is where Gucci places heavy design emphasis, which has changed significantly over the years (even the Gucci logo has changed recently from interlocking G’s to the Marmont GG overlapping style). These QR codes can be scanned with smartphones to authenticate the bag.

#GUCCI KEY CHAIN POUCH SERIAL NUMBER#

If the bag is purportedly a newer model, and doesn’t have a tag, this is an instant red flag of counterfeit.įurthermore, since 2016/2017 and through 2021, in addition to the serial number tag, Gucci began using QR codes, located on a black fabric tag inside the bag to help fight against counterfeiters. The shape and style of the tag also varies substantially in older vintage Gucci. The leather rectangular serial number tag is typically found on Gucci bags made in the late 90s and onward.In the late 1970s to early 1980s Gucci produced a Gucci Accessory Collection, which had a serial number printed in gold, which you can often now find partially peeled or fading.Ěround the 1970s Gucci bags had no serial or model number and just the Gucci script in cursive.Ěround the 1960s some bags would and others would not have a model number.Vintage Gucci bags from before the 1960s had model numbers on their tags.Gucci branding, tag styles, and presence of a number varied very substantially over the years:

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