Steve Jobs signed cheque smashes estimate at RRAuction

Pre-bidding has closed at RR Auctions latest 'remarkable rarities' sale with a Steve Jobs signed cheque currently at $38,775 against an estimate of $25,000.

Steve Jobs signed check at RR Auction
Image: RR Auction

 

The lot has had 22 bids so far and is sure to be a popular item when the live sale commences at 7pm EST this evening.

The cheque is dated July 23rd 1976; 1976 being the year that the Apple Computer Company was founded, and uses Apple's first official address of 770 Welch Rd, Ste, 154, Palo Alto which was the famous mail drop box that was used when Apple first operated out of Jobs' parent's garage.

Tektronix manufacture test and measurement devices such as oscilloscopes and logic analyzers, instruments that Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak might have used when building and testing the original Apple-1 computer.

Full details at RRAuction.

Update: The Steve Jobs signed cheque sold for $55,000.

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