New Apple Auction Features Steve Jobs-Worn Bomber Jacket, Sealed Original iPhone, Apple-1, and More
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Several Apple and Steve Jobs-related collectibles are up for sale at RR Auctions as part of the site’s “Steve Jobs and the Apple Revolution” event. Items on the auction block include a new-in-box (NIB) 4GB original iPhone, an Apple-1 computer, Jobs’ bomber jacket, and more.
The fully functional Apple-1 Computer was sourced from former Apple employee Dana Redington. The computer, Apple’s original product, came from a “trade-in” pile that Steve Jobs had in his office. The Steves (Jobs and Wozniak) gifted the Apple-1 to Reddington. Apple-1 expert Corey Cohen restored the computer to working order. Bids for the Apple-1 are sitting just a bit short of $100,000, and the computer is expected to sell for more than $300,000.
Also up for sale is a “pitch deck” of several original Polaroids that Jobs used when presenting the Apple-1 to Paul Terrell. Terrell ordered a batch of Apple-1 machines to sell in The Byte Shop, and the Polaroids were part of Jobs’ pitch deck. The current bid for the auction item sits at $2,148. The images are expected to sell for over $30,000.
An original new-in-box 4GB iPhone is also on the block, still factory-sealed in the box. Original iPhones have gone for as much as $50,000, with the rarer 4GB models selling for over $190,000. The auction house expects this one to sell for over $80,000.
One item sure to bring a tidy sum is a bomber jacket that Steve Jobs wore in an iconic photograph. The jacket was worn in a 1983 photo of Steve Jobs flipping off an IBM sign in New York City. The high bid on the bomber jacket is currently $7,321 and is expected to bring as much as $75,000.
Several other items are up for auction, including a Steve Jobs NeXT ID badge Polaroid, several vintage magazines with Jobs gracing the covers, several classic Macs, checks signed by Jobs, a Jobs business card, Jobs’ 1972 high school yearbook, and several other bits of memorabilia.
The auction includes several other vintage non-Apple items from computer history, including a rare PDP-8 system, early video game arcade cabinets, and autographs from other historic industry figures like Microsoft’s Bill Gates, NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang, and items signed by current Apple CEO, Tim Cook.
Several items are expected to go for a reasonable amount if you’re on a budget and are still looking to grab a piece of Apple history. These include a rare color Grolier Inc. trading card of Steve Jobs from its 1998 ‘Notable People’ Series expected to go for $100+, a rare premiere issue of Macworld from February 1984 with Steve Jobs on the cover that is expected to go for $200+, and many other items.
The “Steve Jobs and the Apple Revolution” auction event, which contains nearly 300 items, is scheduled to run until August 22, 2024.
Steve Jobs’ autographed memorabilia has long been popular among Apple-related auction items. A December 2023 auction saw a $4.01 Apple Computer Company check signed by Jobs and made out to Radio Shack in 1976 go for $46,063 at auction, nearly double what had been expected.
A March 2024 auction saw a 1976 “Apple Computer Company” Steve Jobs-signed check, written out to Pacific Telephone to pay Apple’s $201.41 phone bill go up for sale. The check, dated July 8, 1976, sold for $66,069, well over the expected $25,000+ final bid the item was expected to bring.
In March 2024, a rare Steve Jobs-signed 1983 Apple Computer business card went for $181,183 at auction.
