The Gold Rush-era artifacts bagged the price of $114,000 in the auction, making it one of the costliest artifacts. There is some debate as to whether they are related to the man who is regarded as the inventor of contemporary blue jeans, Levi Strauss & Co.
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