Levi's most expensive in the world

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If anyone thought that Levi's were expensive, surely attack will know that the highest price has been paid for a couple of them is $ 46,532 in 2001.

But more surprising is that he paid that sum was the same company that invented 128 before.

In 1998 one of the numerous mines in the State of Nevada, western United States, appeared under a rock jeans completely filled with mud, dirty and bored. The surprise was when to pick them up and examine them more closely they realized they had found some Levi's, and not about anyone, but possibly the oldest found so today.

Dating from the 1880's, these Levi's should be among the first that came out of the hands of the manufacturers, the famous shopkeeper German Levi Strauss and tailor Lithuanian Jacob Davis, as the company Levi Strauss & Co. created its first pair of pants with rivets in 1873.




In 1872, Jacob Davis a tailor from the city of Reno (in the same state that have found pants) who used to buy the jeans to Levi Strauss, said it had devised a system to prevent the pants were broken by pockets. It consisted of a series of metal rivets at each corner of the pockets and on the boards, but discolocar not enough money to patent the patenting Strauss offered together. And they did, the patent came in 1873 (patent number is 139.121 you can find here), and that same year sold the first pants "waist overalls", which was as they were called then.

The Levi's from Nevada, were auctioned between 18 and 25 May 2001, jointly by the CanalHistoria, eBay and Butterfields, and its estimated value was between $ 25,000 and $ 35,000, but sniping forced the company to raise further, reaching the final $ 46,532. And to think that once sold for 1.5 dollars.

Levis Strauss & Co. and in 1998 bought another pair also own a $ 25,000, dated 1890. These purchases that someone might describe as absurd, have their rationale in the fact that the company lost much of the archive in its headquarters in San Francisco during the fire caused by the 1906 earthquake that devastated the city. Hence the obsession with the company for something of their history, lost in the disaster, no matter the price they have to pay.

If, however, to you if you care about the price, and your wallet will not let you buy a pair of pants like these, perhaps it can buy the reproduction Hamilton Dry Goods Company of Tennessee, which specializes in clothing the American Civil War has made and that they have dubbed "Old 73's". You dress like a real American cowboy for a little less than 50 euros. Not bad, if we consider that Levi's made by a worker in a basement eastern Mataró last month, they can cost up to 60 euros in any mall.

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