The world’s oldest known jeans recovered from a shipwreck, sold at auction
RENO, Nev. – A pair of work pants recovered from an 1857 sunken ship’s trunk off the North Carolina coast, which auction officials describe as the world’s oldest known jeans, has sold for $114,000. According to Holabird Western American Collections, white, heavy-duty miners’ pants with a five-button flap were among 270 Gold Rush-era artifacts that …
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