Have a spare $3,900 lying around to spend on the Apple fan in your life? If so, you could do a lot worse than splashing out on twin mice, still in their packaging, signed by none other than Apple co-founders Steve Jobs and Wozniak.
While the Woz autograph was obtained through Woz’s website, eBay user kidsmom1253 explains that the Jobs autograph was a bit harder to come by:
“I personally got the Steve Jobs autograph in June 2004 in Columbus Ohio where he was attending some Apple event in connection with Nationwide Insurance … I stood outside the Hyatt Hotel for 2 days & nights trying to get Steve Jobs to sign. He was a very nice guy but very reserved & did not like the celebrity thing or signing autographs at all. In fact he took a cheap taxi cab going to and from the Hyatt.”
The almost $4,000 “Buy It Now” price tag certainly makes this an item more suited to your Apple Watch Edition owner than your Apple Watch Sport customer, but it’s definitely a pretty neat Jobs memento if you can get your hands on it. You can check out the auction by clicking here.
Also make sure you read our list of the best Apple auctions in history for more ideas about the kind of memorabilia that’s out there.
After all, if you do buy this for your Apple-loving friend/partner, you’ll need to start planning now to make sure next year’s birthday gift measures up.
Luke Dormehl is a U.K.-based journalist and author, with a background working in documentary film for Channel 4 and the BBC. He is the author of The Apple Revolution and The Formula: How Algorithms Solve All Our Problems … and Create More, both published by Penguin/Random House. His tech writing has also appeared in Wired, Fast Company, Techmeme and other publications.
