A check that Steve Jobs signed in the earliest days of Apple is up for auction. The Apple co-founder sent the check to a consulting firm way back in 1976, when the upstart computer company still operated out of Jobs’ garage.
Also up for auction: a Steve Jobs business card from when he ran NeXT in the early 1990s.
Steve Jobs signed check could bring in $25,000 at auction
Anything Jobs signed is valuable, and not just because he was a co-founder of Apple and the face of the company for decades. He’s someone who didn’t sign many autographs, so there aren’t huge numbers of pieces of paper floating around with his signature.
But the signed check for sale at RR Auction is unusual above and beyond that.
It’s from “Apple Computer Company,” back before the name was simplified. And the address on the check is for a mail drop being used when Jobs and co-founder Steve Wozniak were still working out of Jobs’ parents’ garage on the Apple-1.
It’s made out to Crampton, Remke & Miller. According to RR Auction, this was “a management consulting firm in Palo Alto that provided business process consulting to a wide range of high tech companies in Northern California. In addition to the fledgling Apple Computer, the firm’s clients included Atari, Memorex, National Semiconductor, and Xerox. Jobs’s hiring of such a firm during Apple’s earliest stages demonstrates his eye toward long-term growth.”
The auction estimate for the item sits at $25,000. The current high bid is $16,500, but the auction doesn’t end until May 10.
Steve Jobs NeXT Business Card up for auction, too
After getting kicked out of Apple in 1985, Jobs founded NeXT, which made computers that competed with the Macintosh. It didn’t go well; Jobs rejoined Apple in 1997.
Now a business card Jobs used while chairman and CEO at NeXT is up for auction. It’s expected to sell for about $800, and the current bid is $500. That auction also ends on May 10.
Notice that it’s from the days before email, but people did show a fax number.
Visit the RR Auction website to get more details about either item, or to put in a bid.
