Incredible array of rare Apple memorabilia fetches thousands at auction

It includes a signed Apple Computer check that sold for $131,000…

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A vast array of Apple memorabilia was sold at auction this week.
Items including rare pieces signed by Steve Jobs fetched hundreds of thousands of dollars.
All but one of the items sold alongside other rare items, including a prototype mockup of Atari’s smash-hit Pong.

A vast array of Apple memorabilia including items signed by Steve Jobs has sold at an auction for hundreds of thousands of dollars.

‘The Steve Jobs Revolution: Engelbart, Atari, and Apple’ closed Thursday, with a wide variety of items from Apple and other relics of computing yesteryear going under the hammer.

The top-selling item was a rare Apple Computer check signed by both Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, for a payment of $3,430 for Apple II components. Dated July 15, 1976, the item sold for $131,138, more than five times its estimated price.

The check was closely followed by a Steve Jobs Atari job application, which missed out on its estimate by a huge amount after its authenticity was thrown into doubt. It sold for $130,000, much less than its estimate and $200,000 less than the item was bought for last year.

A signed Steve Jobs Autograph note to one ‘Brian Miller’ sold for $2 shy of $100,000, and the next closest item was a Steve Jobs signed issues of Macworld #1. Other items sold included an Apple-1 computer manual, a Steve Jobs signed high school yearbook, a special edition Bob Marley iPod Classic (first-generation), and a further array of business cards and prototypes.

The smash-hit of the auction was not an Apple-related item but was instead a unique Pong ‘Home Edition’ prototype mockup made of wood that sold for more than $215,000. You can see the full array of items sold here.