Steve Jobs

There has always been a marketplace for the personal cards of important people, but the humble ceremonial personal card (aka business card, visiting card, calling card, Carte de Visite) has never received much attention at auction, and has often been used as part of a significant lot to highlight provenance and authenticity.

Imagine a 'perfect storm' on the auction block, where historical importance, rarity, massive demand, the provenance of several of history’s most important people and fortuitous timing all coincide to multiply the sale price to unprecedented levels.

The booming alternative assets market space added yet another heavyweight genre this week as the world record for a business card was smashed twice today by both Steve Jobs and Elon Musk, and the auction still has four days to run.

A Macintosh SE computer that was used by tech legend Steve Jobs is going on the auction block in New York on October 25 as part of Bonham's History of Science and Technology auction, where the unit is estimated to go for US$200,000 to $300,000.

This is the second part of our overview of the 2021 auction year – a year where investors channeled more of their wealth into “investments of passion” than ever before. It covers the 150 science, sci-fi and technology artifacts that sold for more than $100,000

We've been harping on for two decades about how undervalued scientific and computer memorabilia is. Hence, we figure that we should alert our esteemed readership to an RR Auction heading for conclusion later this month, which includes some gems.

A Steve Jobs’ job application from 1973 has sold for the fourth time in as many years, fetching $343,000 last week. The remarkable aspect of this sale is that both the physical A4 application and a NFT of the printed page were offered separately.

Five years ago, Steve Jobs talked about a new kind of mobile device that would sit somewhere between smartphone and laptop. After a spot-on dismissal of netbooks, he showed us Apple's answer: the iPad. Today tablets may be familiar ground, but there's no question that the iPad was a breakthrough.

Steve Jobs' devotion to the customer's experience was paramount.

Apple Co-Founder Steve Jobs has passed away aged 56.

The indisputable fact is that Steve Jobs is the most successful business leader of his generation and quite possibly of all time.

Steve Jobs has resigned from his post as CEO of Apple.