A pair of 165-year-old God Rush-era jeans made by Levi Strauss in the 1850s is one of the 270 treasures recovered from a legendary sunken ship recently sold at auction.The miner's work pants feature a five-button fly and are covered in black and brown stains from the trunk it was found in when a rouge captain discovered the S.S. Central America, known as the Ship of Gold, wreck at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.More than 7,500 bidders from around the world flocked to the auction house in to battle it out for jewelry, early Brooks Brothers undershirts and the lid to the oldest known Wells Fargo treasure shipment box, among other items .
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