Bradley Bucket

Style number

9936

Era

classic-nycE3-E4

Designer

in-house

Confidence

tentative

Status

published

Lead

The Bradley Bucket (style 9936), also recorded as the “Bradley Bucket Crossbody,” is a Coach Classic NYC-era bucket-silhouette bag with a cross-body strap, documented in a Tier 3 dealer compilation [yourgreatfinds-collectors-guide]. It sits within the broader NYC-era bucket family alongside the Equestrian Compartment Bucket (9809), the Nicholas Bucket Drawstring (9946), and the later Bleecker Bucket.

Description

The Bradley is identified as a bucket-style bag carried via a cross-body strap under style number 9936 [yourgreatfinds-collectors-guide]. Dimensions, drawstring or other top-closure details, and lining are unconfirmed in free public sources. The bucket family it belongs to spans multiple NYC-era silhouettes — the Equestrian Compartment Bucket adds interior compartments, the Nicholas uses a drawstring closure, and the Bleecker Bucket extends the family into the later catalog — but specific shared construction details for the Bradley have not been documented from a primary source.

Authentication

A pre-1994 Bradley Bucket should carry the diagnostics common to the Classic NYC era (cross-reference authentication/ for the full era-keyed matrix):

• Style number 9936. Visible on the leather creed inside the bag on numbered-creed examples [yourgreatfinds-collectors-guide]. A style number alone does not date a specific bag — Coach reused style numbers across multiple production years.
• Creed wording (E3 diagnostic). A pre-1994 Bradley should read “COACH LEATHERWARE” with “LEATHERWARE” stamped in small letters beneath “COACH,” typically with “Made in United States” or “Made in New York City, U.S.A.” on earlier examples [coachbagrehab-dating, vintagecoachie].
• Serial format. Pre-1994 examples carry a digit-only unique serial (xxx-xxxx 1970s, xxxx-xxx 1980s) per [coachbagrehab-dating] — tentative. Any post-1994 production carrying 9936 forward (E4) would use the [A-M][year-digit][factory-letter]-9936 pattern with the documented single-digit-year ambiguity.
• Hardware. Solid brass cross-body strap fittings, non-magnetic. A magnet that sticks indicates plated steel and is a strong reproduction signal [coachbagrehab-dating].

Sources

• yourgreatfinds-collectors-guide (D1) — names the Bradley Bucket Crossbody as style 9936 in a Classic NYC-era list of ~80 styles and places it in the bucket family alongside the Equestrian Compartment Bucket, Nicholas Bucket Drawstring, and Bleecker Bucket.
• coachbagrehab-dating (E1) — Classic NYC-era creed wording and serial-format diagnostics applied to authenticating a Bradley.
• vintagecoachie (E2) — corroborates “COACH LEATHERWARE” creed diagnostic for pre-1994 dating.

Confidence: tentative overall. Single Tier 3 identification with no corroborating dimensional, dated, or visual evidence in free public sources.