A pair of men’s work pants that auction officials believe could be the world’s oldest pair of jeans have sold for $114,000 (£92,010).
The white pants were found in a sunken trunk in a shipwreck in 1857 near the coast of North Carolina.
They feature a five-button fly and are believed to have belonged to a miner.
The jeans were among 270 Gold Rush-era memorabilia that sold for nearly $1m total, according to Holabird Western Americana Collections.
The auction took place in Reno, Nevada in the western...
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