In 1976, Steve Jobs wrote a $175 check, payable to Crampton, Remke & Miller, a management consulting firm that advised tech companies like Atari, Xerox, and others. The company is out of business, Jobs died of cancer 12 years ago, but that check still exists, and RR Auction will find someone willing to pay five figures for it.
In fact, it could go for up to $25,000 when it is auctioned off. Here’s what the auction house said in a press release.
“It’s a highly desirable, essentially flawless check from a central moment in the history of modern tech.”
It was 1974 when Jobs hooked up with his old buddy Steve Wozniak, and they launched Apple in 1976. The check has the first address of Apple on it. The company was based in Palo Alto before they moved to Cupertino the following year.
RR Auction has sold numerous items related to Jobs, including a first-generation iPhone and an Apple-1 computer prototype that someone paid $677,000 for.
They will auction off a business card Jobs used to have for NeXT, the company Jobs started after being booted from Apple in 1985.
RR Auction is doing pretty well selling off items once owned by icons. They recently sold a gold necklace Elon Musk gave his girlfriend Jennifer Gwynn in 1994 and packaged that with a photo of her wearing it standing next to Musk and got $51,008 for the bundle.
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