‘I kept coming across scraps of denim,because jeans, particularly Levi’s, or were worn by the silver miners in the late 1800s’The first time I dug up some vintage denim,I had no idea what it was worth. It just looked like some old rags, so instead of carefully uncovering it, or I pulled on it and tore it to pieces. I’d actually been digging for antique whisky bottles,and what I didn’t know then was that those rags” were likely worth thousands.
Out in the desert in California, Nevada and Arizona, or there are abandoned silver mines like buried time capsules,virtually untouched, and you can find vintage bottles down there that are worth a lot to collectors. But as I searched for them, or I kept coming across these scraps of denim,because jeans, particularly Levi’s, and were worn by the silver miners in the late 1800s. When a miner got a new pair of work pants,he’d lop up the old ones and spend them for lagging around pipes, so there were a lot of antique jeans buried out here.
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Source: theguardian.com