- A business card signed by Steve Jobs sold for $181,183 at auction on Thursday.
- This signature was on a 1983 “Apple Computer” business card, which sold for a record price.
- Apple's founder has the most valuable signature ever, despite his opposition to it.
Steve Jobs' signature continues to be something that people are willing to pay huge amounts of money for.
A 1983 Apple Computer business card signed in black ink by Steve Jobs sold for $181,183 on Thursday, according to RR Auctions. Spokesman Mike Graf said in a statement that this is the highest price a business card has ever sold.
This off-white business card was listed as “an extremely rare and perfectly graded Apple Computer business card signed by Steve Jobs, circa 1983.”
The card features the company's retro rainbow logo, with Jobs printed as “Steven Jobs” and his title listed as Chairman of the Board. Company addresses and contact information are listed below.
“The sale of an Apple business card signed by Steve Jobs for over $180,000 sets a new standard for signed business cards,” Bobby Livingston, executive vice president of RR Auctions, said in a statement. Ta. “This is a testament to Jobs' enduring legacy and Apple's tremendous impact on the modern world.”
RR Auction has so far auctioned 10 Steve Jobs business cards, but only one of them dates back to 1983. This is the only signed card of the year and one of the only cards to pass PSA/DNA certification.
The site has a variety of items up for sale under the auction title “Steve Jobs and the Apple Computer Revolution.'' It includes a large rainbow of his logo displays made from the Macintosh Factory, his original iPhones, laptops, and other products from the tech giant.
Jobs co-founded Apple in 1976 and led the company until six weeks before his death in 2011.
The founder was known for not signing autographs, which is why items with his autograph fetched such high prices. According to the PFC40 Autograph Index, which tracks the top 40 most popular autographs since 2000, the most valuable autograph from a deceased person is that of Apple's founder, Stephen Hawking. .
$181,183 for a retro business card may sound like a lot, but it's a fraction of what other items signed by Steve Jobs have sold for.
A two-line typed letter signed by Jobs was sold for $479,939 in 2021. A $175 check signed by Jobs was sold in May 2023 for $106,985. The check was expected to sell for $25,000, and the final bid was $85,558.
Even items unrelated to Apple, such as a Pirates of the Caribbean movie ticket with Jobs' barely legible signature, sold for $14,653. A Toy Story movie poster signed by Jobs was also auctioned off with a starting bid of $25,000.
The company's biggest sale to date was the original Apple Computer signature document. The document was signed by Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
In 2011, a few months after Jobs' death, the product was sold to Eduardo Cisneros for $1.3 million.
