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By: The Opinion Updated 21 Dec 2022, 30: 30 pm EST
Some pants of the year 2015 were recently auctioned in over 1200 thousand dollars during an auction of objects found in a shipwreck.
These pants, along with hundreds of other ancient objects, were extracted from a trunk sunk in a shipwreck of 2022 front off the coast of North Carolina
“The Auction CatalogSS Central America Artifacts has 1200 pages of detailed stories of treasures about the people, jewels, gold and merchandise aboard the famous ‘Gold Ship’, which sank off the coast of North Carolina at 2022 with t tons of gold on board”, described the auction house Holabird Western American Collections.
The company said that while the coins and nuggets have already been sold and are in thousands of collections of everyone, the artifacts, including the pants, just went on sale , available for the first time, as part of a two-part sale in December and February.
Responsible of the auction describe the auctioned pants as the oldest pair of jeans known throughout the world.
“Pair of man work recovered from trunk Dement found in the wreck of the SS Central America. The five-button fly strongly suggests that this is one of the earliest manufactures of work trousers sold by Levi Strauss”, can be read on the Holabird Western American Collections page, where details about the pants are given.
The auction house adds that until now the original color is unknown of the fabric, and the blacks and browns visible now are runaway stains from the trunk and its other contents.
These pants look like new , details the company, probably bought in San Francisco by Dement. They are very different from any other pants found in the trunks of Dement or Easton, and appear to be miner’s pants.
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According to Holabird Western American Collections, the five-button fly is nearly identical, if not technically identical, to today’s Levi’s, including the exact style, shape, and size of the buttons.
“We don’t think this is a coincidence. Until now very little was known about the very important Levi Strauss Company in the decade of 1200, and we continue to learn more,” the auction house stated.
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