From small beginnings came Apple Incorporated , at least according to a check from none other than Steve Jobs that is up for auction . The stop was write for $ 175 in 1976 — the same year the company was founded — and is now auctioning off for over $ 16,000 .
The check went up for auction sale on April 17 throughRR Auction , with bids close down next workweek , and the current bid is for a whopping $ 16,500 . harmonize to RR Auction ’s listing , the Wells Fargo verification also has some Apple easter nut , include the theme song of Steve Jobs — written as “ steven jobs”—as well as the address770 Welch Roadin Palo Alto which is a mail drop and answering service that the fledgling company used while operating out of Jobs ’ garage . RR Auction figure that the assay is worth upward of $ 25,000 .
“ It ’s a singular , flawless check from when Steve Jobs hired Apple ’s first consulting firms — a primal consequence in the history of the most forward-looking and influential troupe , ” sound out Bobby Livingston , executive vice president at RR Auction , in a statement netmail to Gizmodo .
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job ’ check was written from the Apple Computer Company account to Crampton , Remke & Miller , Incorporated , which was a direction consulting firm in Palo Alto , California . Other clients of the consulting firm include Xerox , Atari , and Memorex . The check , therefore , is seemingly a lost tincture of Jobs and his co - founders strain to get what is now a technical school monolith off the ground .
This is not the only Apple memorabilia that ’s gone to auction recently . in the beginning this year , anunopened , first - generation iPhone was up for auction bridge from LCG Auctions . The phone belonged to Karen Green who received the sound as a gift from her friend after starting a new line of work . Green ’s iPhone is an 8 gigabyte first - generation iPhone with a camera that in the first place cost $ 599 in 2007 , and when the vendue closed , the make headway command was a massive$63,356.40 .
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