Be sure to check any abandoned mine shafts near you because a 19th century pair of Levi's sold for upwards of $87,000 at auction.
Dated at around 1880 these bad boys were being worn during peak Cowboy era.
There is a rather dark side too the old denim though, as an inside pocket is printed with the phrase "The only kind made by White Labor." The Wall Street Journal cited a Levi's sp
okesperson who explained that the company used this slogan after the introduction of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882, which barred Chinese laborers from entering the US. The WSJ reported that Levi's dropped both this policy and the slogan in the 1890s. The act was repealed in 1943.
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