- HOW TO FIND DATE CODE ON LOUIS VUITTON SERIAL NUMBERS
- HOW TO FIND DATE CODE ON LOUIS VUITTON SERIAL NUMBER
Instead of first and third digit being the month, it now means the week of the year the bag was made.įor example, VI 2007 translates "Made in France 20th week of 2007 meaning around the third week of May.
HOW TO FIND DATE CODE ON LOUIS VUITTON SERIAL NUMBER
Since January 2007, Louis Vuitton has yet adopted another serial number reading system. Now what do you think serial number "CA0917" mean? Yes, your right, it means Made in Spain, January 1997. Serial number "LA0999" means the bag is made in USA on 09 (means September, take first and third digit), year 1999 (take second and last digit 99 meaning year 1999, only last 2 digits of the year is displayed for simplicity) You take the first and third digit as the month: 01 means January and you take the second and forth digit as the year: 01 means 2001 Serial number "SP0011" means the bag is made in France and it was made on January, 2001. The following is generated from personal experience) :įrance: A1, A2, AA, AO, AC, AN, AR, AS, BA, BJ, CT, DU, ET, FL, FR, MB, MI, NO, ND, RA, RI, SD, SL, SN, SP, SR, TH, VI, VR The first two letters tell you "the country where it is made" and the numbers tell you the "month and year it was manufactured".įor definition of letters, refer to the following: (Be aware that this list is not complete and only Louis Vuitton has the complete list.
I've also seem some vintage handbags with one letter followed by 5 digits.ĭate codes since the 90's consists of two letters followed by four numbers. Louis Vuitton made in the early 80's had three or four digits only and Louis Vuitton made in the late 80's had three or four digits followed by two letters.
HOW TO FIND DATE CODE ON LOUIS VUITTON SERIAL NUMBERS
Not all handbags with serial numbers are authentic and not all handbags without a serial number are fake. The DC was meant for the use of Louis Vuitton employees internally to identify their own handbags. DC were only widely used after the 1990's.
Many Vintage Louis Vuitton do not have Date Codes at all and nowadays almost all fake bags have date codes.ĭate code (DC) is also commonly referred to as " serial numbers" and can be used interchangeably. First of all, I must say Date Codes are not an absolute way to determine authentcity of Louis Vuitton items.
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