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125-year-old Levis sell for nearly $100K
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Posted on 05/26/2018 10:26:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The 125-year-old Levi Strauss & Co. blue jeans, which failed to sell at auction in 2016, now have a new owner somewhere in Southeast Asia.

"It's somebody who loves old Levis," said Daniel Buck Soules...

The price puts it near record territory for old Levis. But the private sale agreement prevents Soules from disclosing the exact price or the buyer's location, he said. The buyer sent a representative to Maine to inspect the jeans before buying them on May 15, he said.

They were purchased in 1893 by Solomon Warner, a storekeeper in the Arizona Territory....

The denim was produced at a mill in New Hampshire, and the jeans were manufactured by Levi's in San Francisco.

The cotton jeans, with button fly, had a size 44 waist and 36-inch inseam...

They'd been stored for decades in a trunk and were in pristine condition because Warner wore them only a few times before falling ill...

(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...


TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: levis
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1 posted on 05/26/2018 10:26:25 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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To: BenLurkin

More money than sense. Probably in the genes.

Hahaha!!!!
I crack me up.


2 posted on 05/26/2018 10:27:57 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Those things are really games. Need an extra Tide laundry pod.


3 posted on 05/26/2018 10:35:27 AM PDT by BigEdLB (BigEdLB, Russian BOT, At your service)
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To: BenLurkin

Getting Levis is always a straussful experience.


4 posted on 05/26/2018 10:39:13 AM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: BenLurkin

They’re still tough after 125 years?

Then again, Levis were primarily for guys on the frontier and working in the mines.

Best American invention.


5 posted on 05/26/2018 10:39:23 AM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: BenLurkin
I still have some late 1960’s Levi corduroy bell bottom jeans, wonder what they are worth...10.00?
6 posted on 05/26/2018 10:43:45 AM PDT by Oorang (Tyranny thrives where government need not fear the wrath of an armed people - Alex Kozinski)
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To: Oorang

“Cords” were de rigueur when I was in junior high and high school. They were even more popular than jeans. Dark brown was a popular color, but I preferred the pale khaki and light blue. Corduroy — fabric of royalty.


7 posted on 05/26/2018 10:48:29 AM PDT by Blurb2350
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To: Blurb2350

Corduroy — fabric of royalty.

:)


8 posted on 05/26/2018 10:52:41 AM PDT by thecodont
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To: BenLurkin
size 44 waist and 36-inch inseam...

Definitely in the Big & Tall category back in 1893.

9 posted on 05/26/2018 10:53:18 AM PDT by NautiNurse (Do not make me pay Ferrari prices for Chevy Vega health insurance.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

I’ve always worn 501 button fly...
Sorta like my personal Time Machine!

Zippers have Always frightened Me.


10 posted on 05/26/2018 10:54:20 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: Oorang

they might be worth some money- serious money- might wanna get an estimate done


11 posted on 05/26/2018 11:04:45 AM PDT by Bob434
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To: BenLurkin

I’m wearing a pair that I’ve kept patched and going for about 20 years. Bet they’re worth that least 50 cents.


12 posted on 05/26/2018 11:14:09 AM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: BenLurkin

I thought this was from friends of mine!

They own a pair from this era, but the pair was not in pristine condition!


13 posted on 05/26/2018 11:17:10 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: NautiNurse
"Definitely in the Big & Tall category back in 1893. "

I don't think they had all the variety of tailored lengths we do today. Back then I think you bought them long and cuffed them.


14 posted on 05/26/2018 11:20:55 AM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
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To: BenLurkin

When I was a kid growing up in the 50s nad 60s, just about every guy wore blue jeans.

We called them all Levis tho thinking back, probably more of us wore Wranglers. They were of equal quality and sold for a bit less.


15 posted on 05/26/2018 11:21:53 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: yarddog

I forgot, Lee brand was also popular.


16 posted on 05/26/2018 11:26:50 AM PDT by yarddog
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Did you diarrhea’s hereditary? Yep, it runs in your jeans!


17 posted on 05/26/2018 11:31:48 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Big Red Badger

I know a guy whose little boy (five, maybe) had to go to the hospital to get extricated from a really bad zipper incident.


18 posted on 05/26/2018 11:33:26 AM PDT by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Blurb2350
“Cords” were de rigueur when I was in junior high
1965 - Wide wale corduroy bell bottoms, Beatle boots with horseshoe cleats and a rat tail comb sticking out of your back pocket. That was a fashion statement.
19 posted on 05/26/2018 11:37:47 AM PDT by dainbramaged (Get out of my country now)
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To: thecodont; Gamecock; SaveFerris; FredZarguna; PROCON
Jerry: ...he never heard of corduroy!

Cheryl (howling with laughter): Stop it, you're killing me!!

Jerry: He never heard of corduroy! True story, true story.

Dream sequence ends.


20 posted on 05/26/2018 11:47:25 AM PDT by Larry Lucido
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