On October 1, in a remote RV park in northern New Mexico, a pair of excavated Levi’s jeans from the 1880s sold at auction for $76,000. The buyer? A 23-year-old from San Diego.
Inside the sale of a vintage pair of jeans, pulled from a dusty abandoned mineshaft, for nearly six figures to a Gen Z buyerOn Oct. 1, in a remote RV park in northern New Mexico, a pair of excavated Levi’s jeans from the 1880s sold at auction for $76,000. The buyer? A 23-year-old from San Diego.
“I’m still kind of bewildered, just surprised in myself for even purchasing them,” said Kyle Haupert, who walked away with the jeans, during an interview a few days after the auction closed.
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