- The white, heavy-duty miner’s pants with a five-button fly were among 270 Gold Rush-era artifacts that sold for a total of nearly $1 million.
- Some say historical evidence suggests there are links to Strauss, who was a wealthy wholesaler of dry goods at the time.
- Holabird believes the pants were made by a subcontractor for Strauss. He decided to “follow the money – follow the gold”.
Pulled from a sunken trunk at an 1857 shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina, work pants that auction...
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