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Steve Jobs’ business card bearing the signature of the Apple cofounder himself sold at auction for an amazing value: over $180,000. This is supposedly the most ever paid for a signed business card.
A collection of other Apple memorabilia brought in big bucks at the same auction, a sign of the popularity of rare items from the iPhone-maker.
Steve Jobs signature brings top value
Anything Jobs signed is valuable, and not just because he was a cofounder 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.
And the business card is a stand out. It’s from circa 1983, the year before the release of the original Macintosh, and has the original Apple rainbow logo. It’s in near perfect condition, and was graded by PSA/DNA as GEM MT 10.
“The sale of the Steve Jobs-signed Apple business card for over $180,000 sets a new standard in autographed business cards. It’s a testament to the enduring legacy of Jobs and the profound impact of Apple on our modern world,” said Bobby Livingston, Executive VP at RR Auction, who handled the sale.
Other items bearing the signature of Apple’s co-founder have fetched large sums in the past. A check made out to a consulting firm in 1976 brought in $107,000 at auction last spring, while one made out to Radio Shack in that same year sold late last year for $46,000.
Part of a larger Apple-themed auction
The business card was sold as part of the Steve Jobs and the Apple Computer Revolution collection by RR Auction.
Other items included an Apple-1 Computer signed by Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak that brought in $323,789. Additionally, a factory-sealed 4GB original 2007 iPhone sold for $147,286.
Jobs and Wozniak united to form Apple Computer in the 1970s, a collaboration that led to the Macintosh in 1984. Almost anything that bears the signature of one or both of them always does well at auction.