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

[hbru123]

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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[BobTheDigger]

That truly is a great find and great part of history. Sometimes its the small things like this that really amaze me. I swear I learn something every time I log into tnet. I never would have known this piece of history if you didn't dig that rivet and share. Thanks!

 

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[hbru123]

That truly is a great find and great part of history. Sometimes its the small things like this that really amaze me. I swear I learn something every time I log into tnet. I never would have known this piece of history if you didn't dig that rivet and share. Thanks!

Thanks so much! I’m glad you liked it!

 

[Honest Samuel]

You did good my friend.

 

[hbru123]

You did good my friend.

Thanks!

 

[Truth]

I appreciate the rivet and the history lesson behind it. Great post my friend.

 

[hbru123]

I appreciate the rivet and the history lesson behind it. Great post my friend.

Thanks so much! I’m glad you liked it!

 

[Professor of Engineering]

Nice find and story! Thank you for sharing.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Nice job on the research.

 

[pepperj]

Nice write up on the history of the rivet and giving it credit that most would have just passed on looking up the history. Well done on both the recovery and the write up.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

I agree 100% with your comment: "Sometimes the smallest pieces can have amazing history behind them."
Here's more about Jacob Davis.
http://renohistorical.org/items/show/48
Don......

As usual, mackaydon comes up with a gem of research. Thanx !

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Wow! I was just reading the same thing! One of the pairs with the same rivets sold for $42,000

If you get any $$ like that for your rivots: You owe me 1/3 for turning you on to the site. Just go ahead and make it simple right now: Paypal me $10,000, and we'll call it even. haha

 

[trdking]

If you get any $$ like that for your rivots: You owe me 1/3 for turning you on to the site. Just go ahead and make it simple right now: Paypal me $10,000, and we'll call it even. haha

Hey TOM Love the effort but that price is for the whole pair of pants and also the oldest pair of Levi's known to be in existence. Levi Strauss actually purchased these back to put in their museum.
It would be glorious to find a pair older than this pair as Levi would HAVE to buy them from you so they could still say they had the oldest pair Start going through your attics people!

 

[JerseyDigger19]

This is the coolest digging story I've read all year. Those early Levi's rivets are fantastic historical treasures. Congratulations on digging them!

 

[basque-man]

That is very cool! Good eye!

 

[Rubka888]

That is amazing! Good job with the research and story! I bet that has some real value and this might be banner worthy

 

[hbru123]

Nice find and story! Thank you for sharing.

Thanks!

 

[hbru123]

Nice job on the research.

Thanks!

 

[hbru123]

Nice write up on the history of the privet and giving it credit that most would have just passed on looking up the history. Well done on both the recovery and the write up.

Thanks so much!

 

[hbru123]

If you get any $$ like that for your rivots: You owe me 1/3 for turning you on to the site. Just go ahead and make it simple right now: Paypal me $10,000, and we'll call it even. haha

If I do decide to sell it and get any money for it I definitely will. Thanks for telling me about the site.

 

[hbru123]

This is the coolest digging story I've read all year. Those early Levi's rivets are fantastic historical treasures. Congratulations on digging them!

Thanks so much!