Steve Jobs' Signed Apple Business Card, Valued At $60,000, Sells For Much More At Auction: Here's The Winning Bid

Apple Inc AAPL co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs would have turned 70 years old on Monday, Feb. 24. Apple fans and investors continue to pay premium prices at auctions for memorabilia related to Jobs.

What Happened: A rare signed business card of Jobs from 1983 recently hit the auction block as part of the Remarkable Rarities auction from RR Auction.

The business card features a Jobs autograph and is graded PSA 10 Gem Mint, the highest grade given by the well-known trading card and autograph authenticator.

Jobs’s role is listed as chairman and board of directors on the card, along with his name, Stephen Jobs. The business card features an address and telephone number for Apple and the company's rainbow version of the byte logo.

Ahead of the auction, RR Auctions stressed the rarity of the item. The auction house sold 15 Jobs business cards, but only four from the 1983 time period, including one that was signed.

RR Auctions estimated the Jobs business card at $60,000, but bidding quickly took the item over the $100,000 level before the auction ended. The business card sold for $103,750, including the buyer's premium.

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Why It's Important: Although the business card fetched a high price, making it one of the most expensive business cards sold at auction, it ranks only eighth among Jobs memorabilia auctioned by RR Auctions.

An Apple II manual signed and inscribed by Jobs sold for $787,484 by RR Auctions in August 2021. The business card is one of more than a dozen items from the former Apple CEO that have topped the $100,000 mark for the auction house.

Other auction houses have sold Steve Jobs memorabilia, including autographed items and artifacts from Apple’s early days.

Fractional investing company Rally previously offered shares of an 86 Macintosh Plus signed by Jobs. The item was sold by Rally in September 2024 for $150,000. Rally currently offers shares in the 1983 Steve Jobs iconic jacket, which he wore in a famous photo flipping off the IBM logo. The jacket is currently valued at $58,000.

The Jobs business card was the second most valuable item sold in the Remarkable Rarities Auction. A signed Albert Einstein iconic photo with his tongue out sold for $338,630, significantly higher than a $40,000 pre-auction estimate.

The auction also included signatures of historical figures like George Washington, King Henry VIII, The Beatles, Abraham Lincoln, Pablo Picasso, Benjamin Franklin and Winston Churchill.

A signed Elon Musk SpaceX replica helmet sold for $21,655 in the auction, higher than a pre-auction estimate of $2,000.

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