You have the opportunity to wrap yourself in a piece of Apple history: the bomber jacket Steve Jobs was wearing in an iconic photo of the Apple co-founder “flipping the bird” to an IBM sign.
It’s part of Steve Jobs and the Apple Revolution, an auction that just kicked off featuring nearly 300 items.
You can buy Steve Jobs’ bomber jacket
In 1983, Jobs and some of the original Macintosh development team went to New York City to meet with Newsweek. The group was walking around Manhattan and passed an IBM sign. Steve Jobs flipped the sign the bird, and the moment was caught on camera.
The bomber jacket, made by Wilkes Bashford of San Francisco, is being sold by RR Auction. The estimated final price is $75,000 — but that’s really up to the bidders.
Apple-1, prototype Polaroids and more up for auction
While Steve Jobs’ infamous bomber jacket is among the more unusual items in the collection, there’s plenty of other Apple memorabilia. A set of Polaroid photographs of the Apple-1 prototype were given to Paul Terrell of the Byte Shop in 1976 to help convince him to sell the computer. The three could sell for as much as $30,000. Speaking of Polaroids, there’s one of Jobs taken as his temporary ID badge when NeXT Computer was founded.
There’s also an operational Apple-1 Computer from Apple Employee Dana Redington, who has owned it since early 1978. It’s expected to go for at least $300,000.
Also being sold by RR Auction is Apple Computer Check No. 4, signed by Jobs in March 1976, before the company had been officially founded. Made out to Zack Electronics, t’s likely for components for the Apple-1 prototype. There is a first-generation 4GB iPhone, still in its original packaging. Its price might reach $80,000.
The Steve Jobs and the Apple Revolution auction offers dozens more items. Bidding continues at RR Auction until August 22, 2024.
