Overview
- Bidding is live online and runs through the end of January, with outlets citing either January 29 or January 30 as the close.
- Top lots include the earliest known Apple-1 prototype with a $50,000 opening bid and a valuation above $500,000, plus Apple’s first check opening at $25,000 with a similar estimate.
- Early activity shows the prototype at a single $50,000 bid, while the $500 Wells Fargo check signed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak has yet to draw a bid.
- Items consigned by stepbrother John Chovanec range from Jobs’ boyhood desk and bow ties to a heatsink and ribbon cable tied to an Apple-1.
- The catalog broadens beyond Apple with Jobs’ 1975 Atari “Astrochart” memo and rare Commodore and Atari hardware, as RR Auction signals strong prices based on prior Apple sales.