Overview
- RR Auction’s “Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution” sale realized $8,153,074 in total.
- A pre-production Apple-1 “Celebration” board was the top lot at $2,750,000.
- The Wells Fargo check for $500, dated March 16, 1976 and marked “No. 1,” paid PCB designer Howard Cantin weeks before Apple’s incorporation.
- RR Auction executive Bobby Livingston called the check “the most important financial document in Apple history.”
- Reporters said the $2.4 million result is believed to be the highest price ever paid for a signed check at public auction, dwarfing early Apple checks that fetched $107,000 and $46,000 in 2023.