Firm Pays $25,000 for 100-Year-Old Jeans
<i> Associated Press</i>
NEW YORK —
Levi Strauss & Co. paid $25,000 for an approximately 100-year-old pair of jeans, believed to be one of the two oldest pairs of Levi’s in existence.
The jeans, apparently once owned by a coal miner in Colorado, are to be exhibited at the Levi Strauss museum in San Francisco, near a pair almost the same age but in poorer condition.
The jeans, which have a single back pocket and a leather patch on the waistband, were found in remarkably good shape in November by someone combing an old mine. The pair dates from 1886 to 1902, when the jeans cost around $1.25, company historian Lynn Downey told the New York Times.
