Pulled from a sunken trunk at an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina, work pants that auction officials describe as the oldest known pair of jeans in the world have sold for $114,000.
In this undated photo provided by Holabird Western Americana Collections are miner's work pants with a five-button fly, recovered from the 1857 sinking of the S.S. Central America, that may have been made by or for Levi Strauss during the California Gold Rush-era. They sold for $114,000 in an auction conducted by Holabird Western Americana Collections in Reno, Nev., on December 3, 2022.
“The pants are not Levi’s nor do I believe they are miner’s work pants,” she wrote in an email to The Associated Press. Tens of millions of dollars worth of gold has been sold since shipwreck recovery began in 1988. But last Saturday marked the first time any artifacts hit the auction block. Another auction is planned in February.
“At the end of the day, nobody can say these are or are not Levi’s with 100% certainty," Manley said. But "these are the only known Gold Rush jean ... not present in any collection in the world.” Holabird said he told Panek while she examined the pants in Reno last week there was no way to compare them historically or scientifically to those made in 1873.
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