Would you like to have a piece of Steve Jobs’s early years at Apple in your collection? Now you can get a check that he signed himself to pay your company’s telephone bill. This item was put up for auction and can now be purchased for just a few thousand dollars.
In particular, the receipt contains relevant information about the early years of Apple’s existence, for example, the company name: “Apple Computer Company”, the leadership of the first headquarters in Palo Alto, California and, of course, the signature of Steve Jobs. This is a check payable to Pacific Telephone dated July 8, 1976 for $201.41.
The check uses Apple’s first official address: “770 Welch Rd., Ste. 154, Palo Alto” – the location of the answering machine and mailbox they used while still working in the famous Jobs family garage. In a very good condition. Encapsulated and classified by PSA/DNA as “GEM MT 10”.
This is an important object not only for Steve Jobs signaturebut for the time it was extended. “During this period, in the summer of 1976, approximately four months after the founding of Apple Computer Company, Jobs and Wozniak were hard at work creating their first product,” the auction website says.
Check price? At the time of writing, the auction is ongoing. US$15,307. It will end on March 22 next year.
Other Steve Jobs properties have already been auctioned
This is not the only Steve Jobs item to be auctioned in recent years. Last August, a man paid $75,759 for a letter handwritten by Steve Jobs in 1976. In it, Jobs provides data on Apple-1, the company’s first personal computer. Birkenstock sandals worn by Steve Jobs himself were also auctioned in 2022, including NFTs.
TO US$787,483 An Apple II instruction manual, also signed by Apple’s co-founder, was sold at auction.
Source: Hiper Textual
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