Work pants that auction officials describe as the oldest known pair of jeans in the world have sold for $114,000.
A pair of work pants, possibly made by or for Levi Strauss, from the S.S. Central America are seen in a warehouse in Sparks, Nev., on May 4, 2022.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.
But the company's historian and archive director, Tracey Panek, says any claims about their origin are "speculation." Other auction items that had been entombed for more than a century in the ship's wreckage 7,200 feet below the surface of the Atlantic Ocean included the purser's keys to the treasure room where tons of Gold Rush coins and assayers ingots were stored. It sold for $103,200.
The unique mix of artifacts from high society San Franciscans to blue-collar workers piqued the interest of historians and collectors alike. The pants came from the trunk of an Oregon man, John Dement, who served in the Mexican-American War. Panek added in emails to AP this week that the pants "are not typical of miner's work pants in our archives." She cited the color, "unusual fly design with extra side buttonholes" and the non-denim fabric that's lighter weight "than cloth used for its earliest riveted clothing."
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