Would you like to have an item from Steve Jobs in his early years at Apple in your collection? Now you can get a check that he signed himself in order to pay a telephone bill for your company. This item has gone up for auction and you can now get it for only a few thousand dollars.
The Check, specifically, has relevant information about Apple's early years, such as the name of the company: “Apple Computer Company”, the management of the first headquarters in Palo Alto, California and, of course, the signature of Steve Jobs. This is a check addressed to Pacific Telephone on July 8, 1976, for which the payment was $201.41.
The check uses Apple's first official address at “770 Welch Rd., Ste. 154, Palo Alto” – the location of an answering service and mailbox they used while still operating out of the famous Jobs family garage. In very good condition. Encapsulated and classified by PSA/DNA as “GEM MT 10”.
It is an important object not only for the Steve Jobs signaturebut for the time when it was extended. “During this period, in the summer of 1976, approximately four months after founding Apple Computer Company, Jobs and Wozniak were hard at work building their first product,” he details. the auction website.
The price of the check? At the time of writing this article, the auction is going through $15,307. It will end next March 22.
Other Steve Jobs objects have already been auctioned
This is not the only Steve Jobs object that has come up for auction in recent years. In August of last year, a person paid $75,759 for a letter handwritten by Steve Jobs during 1976. In this, Jobs presents data about the Apple-1, the company's first personal computer. In 2022, some Birkenstock sandals worn by Steve Jobs himself were also auctioned, which included an NFT of them.
By $787,483 An Apple II manual that was also signed by Apple's co-founder was auctioned.