WOW!!! Amazing piece of history found!!!

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I was detecting around a homestead when I dug a few rivets and at first I thought nothing of the so I just threw them in my pouch. When I got home I started cleaning them off and I noticed that it said “L S & CO SF, Pat May 1873.” So I looked it up and I found out that it was not any rivet, this has a long and important history behind it. Let’s go back 145 years to 1873, a tailor named Jacob Davis lived in Reno when a customer with a very labor intensive job came to him and said that he was tired of wearing pants that ripped easily, soon after Jacob came up with the idea to strengthen the weak spots of pants using copper rivets. After making him a pair of pants he moved onto the next project. But not long after rumor of the long lasting work wear with riveted reinforcements spread around town and Jacob got more and more requests for the riveted work pants. He knew that he had to come up with a ideas that would do the job. Unfortunately without the financials that he need to apply for a patent and start a company he would not get very far. Soon after he reached out to his fabric supplier, a man by the name of Levi Strauss who was located in San Francisco and with his help on May 20th 1873 their patent was approved and they started their business making riveted work pants under the brand that we still know today as Levi’s Strauss. The rivets I found are the earliest types of rivets made by Levi Strauss. Sometimes the smallest pieces can have amazing history behind them.
 

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Tom_in_CA

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Also: The O.P. "Hayden" is being much too humble. He's 15 yr. old, (have I got that right ?) and still in high school. So he gets 2x the points for getting into a productive history-inducing hobby, and not goofing off like most teens these days :)

I started at that age too, but .... never found a coin older than 1900 till many years later.
 

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hbru123

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Also: The O.P. "Hayden" is being much too humble. He's 15 yr. old, (have I got that right ?) and still in high school. So he gets 2x the points for getting into a productive history-inducing hobby, and not goofing off like most teens these days :)

I started at that age too, but .... never found a coin older than 1900 till many years later.

Thank you so much! It means a lot! Yes I am 15. I absolutely love metal detecting because I can be out in the middle of nowhere uncovering amazing pieces of history! I would not have found this if it was not for your help, thank you so much!
 

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I have emailed a few people about the value of it, I will let everyone know if I hear anything,
 

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HEY 123 NICE WIBBIT FIND>
 

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15? I can't even remember being 15

good job young man
 

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wish I would have started an ira when I was 15, my life would be better now
 

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I started at 14 or 15. Now am 56. And yes: It sets you on an adventure.
 

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Impressive find and research young man! Thise buttons have a lot going for them, of course the earliest Levi Strauss connection is as cool as it gets, but the rivet button revolutionized the work clothes industry, the wobble shank buttons were becoming impractical because the new rivet style button was much more securely fastened to the work garment.
I would definitely go back and sift the ground looking for more...riveted buttons were not meant to come off, the fact you found two makes me think there may be more, perhaps 8 more...
If a pair of work trousers went through a fire, all the buttons would be in the ground.
I think this find deserves banner, can you find a better work button than that?
 

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Impressive find and research young man! Thise buttons have a lot going for them, of course the earliest Levi Strauss connection is as cool as it gets, but the rivet button revolutionized the work clothes industry, the wobble shank buttons were becoming impractical because the new rivet style button was much more securely fastened to the work garment.
I would definitely go back and sift the ground looking for more...riveted buttons were not meant to come off, the fact you found two makes me think there may be more, perhaps 8 more...
If a pair of work trousers went through a fire, all the buttons would be in the ground.
I think this find deserves banner, can you find a better work button than that?

Thanks so much for the kind words! I am heading back tomorrow to see if I can find any more.
 

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hbru123

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I just finished detecting where I found the Levi Strauss rivets and I found some more rivets, I will have to clean them up and see if they are the same type, I will post on here if they are
 

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