hbru123
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- Jun 4, 2016
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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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