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• Register your Dooney & Bourke product. Dooney & Bourke. Offer valid through December 14, 2020 until 12 noon ET only. Valid while supplies last.
• If the serial number starts with. A or B & D it was made in the USA and has the traditional red, white, and blue tag that reads Dooney & Bourke Made in the USA The bags below will have a red, white, and blue fabric that that merely reads Dooney & Bourke.

1. Dooney And Bourke Registration Number Starts With J T
2. Dooney And Bourke Bag Registration

When you are thing about spending a large amount of money on q quality made Dooney and Bourke you should make sure that what you are purchasing is the real deal. There are many good “knock offs” that are a look alike of the real Dooney and Bourke brand. The difference is all in the quality. You want to make sure that you are buying a purse that will last and that you are not getting ripped off. There are many ways to tell if your Dooney and Bourke is real or fake.

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The best way in telling if a Dooney and Bourke purse is counterfeit is to look at the logo first. The logo that is on the purse should be made of the same color thread as the rest of the handbag. Another way to tell that a Dooney and Bourke is authentic is look at the leather. A lot of these counterfeit purses are made of cheap vinyl, and it can be a dead give away that the purse is a fake if it feels cheap. Also, Dooney and Bourke leather is almost always made of British tan leather.

You can also tell if a handbag is fake by the metal used on the closures of the purse. A Dooney and Bourke always has brass closures. Counterfeit companies usually use cheaper metals that are silver based. If your purse has a silver zipper or lock than it is a fake. Dooney and Bourke also has a traditional symbol, a duck, which was imprinted on most of the vintage Dooney and Bourke handbags. The duck symbolized that the Dooney and Bourke handbags are water resistant like a duck. When a duck gets wet, the water runs right off just like a Dooney and Bourke handbag.

One sure way to tell if a Dooney is authentic is to look inside the handbag to see if there is a registration number. Inside the purse you should find the traditional duck log stitched into the purse with a red, white, and blue registration sewn into the bag. Remember that just because a Dooney and Bourke looks good doesn’t mean it is authentic. Be sure that when purchasing a Dooney and Bourke that the dealer is authentic as well as the handbag.

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Characteristics of Authentic Dooney & Bourke

All Weather Leather (AWL) Handbags

A reader wrote:

I thought D&B AWL bags didn’t come out until the 1980’s. I have a over/under tack bag with a green sewn in label, I also have an older style large equestrian bag, with no inside tag, old stylized tag and older style shoulder strap anchors. What year would those be from?

Dooney & Bourke bags sold for between $200-380 in the 1980s and 1990s which invited knock offs and fakes to flood the market. But it only takes a few seconds to spot the difference in materials, workmanship and feel of the great Dooney & Bourke handbags, briefcases, totes, wallets and other items in the All Weather Collection.

To help, authentic Dooney & Bourke items have some identifying features. Note that in the early 1980’s before the AWL (All-Weather Leather) bags went into production, the Equestrian bags, for example, were made of wonderful bridle leather but it was NOT waterproof. Also those early bags, because they were not AWL bags, did not have the Duck Leather seal or the Brass Duck fob as these signify the waterproof aspects – like water shedding from a duck’s feathers. So bear that in mind as you shop for authentic bags. There are some absolutes but some anomalies along the way also. To the best of my knowledge and by researching in my vintage Dooney & Bourke catalog collection, here’s the scoop.

About Registration Tags

Very early bags have no sewn in cloth regitration tags.
The first sewn-in tags (1983-1984) were fairly large green rectangles sewn flat into the bag that said:

Dooney & Bourke
DB
Made in USA

After 1985, the tags were red, white and blue and were sewn as tabs inside the bag in conjunction with a seam. They say:

Dooney & Bourke, Inc.
Made in USA
and they have a registration number on the back.

Some more recent bags (1990s) have been manufactured in the US but assembled elsewhere, such as Costa Rica. Those bags have red, white and blue sewn-in tags that say Dooney & Bourke Inc. but the tag does not say Made in USA. Instead there is often a (leather or cloth) tag underneath the red, white and blue tag that says where the bag was assembled such as the example above which shows a blue cloth tag that says “Assembled in Costa Rica.

In these assembled-overseas bags, there is a registration number on the back of the red, white and blue tag and the letter it stars with indicates the country where the bag was assembled.

C indicates Costa Rica
H J K and L indicate China
I indicates Italy
M indicates Mexico.

This registration tag system was used when Dooney & Bourke was producing a limited amount of collections. As the company got larger, it no longer assigned individual registration numbers to each bag.

Dooney And Bourke Registration Number Starts With J T

Tags removed or snipped? Often we will see tags that are snipped or partially or completely torn out of the bags. If a tag is snipped but is mostly still there, it probably indicates that the bag was sold at an outlet store – it is likely authentic but might have been an overstock or slightly imperfect bag. If a tag is completely ripped out, leaving only a few red and white threads, I am always suspicious. Such bags might be authentic but it would be difficult to authenticate them without a registration number.

Dooney And Bourke Bag Registration

Since there are so many knock-off designer bags out there, it pays to do a little homework before you buy.