There are objects for which it is hard to imagine a price. What would you have guessed for a very rare Apple-1 still working with a Steve Wozniak signature sold at auction for more than $ 340,000? Or for a “simple” $ 3,000 check signed in July 1976 by Steve Jobs and Wozniak, sold in May by RR Auction for $ 164,000? Difficult to make predictions, and the one made upstream for testifies it an iPhone of the first generation still packed.
For the relic, the RR Auction experts, who certainly must have a long enough eye considering the amount of rare or unique pieces they are dealing with, had foreseen a closing price of 15 thousand dollars or more, and this time too they ended up close. Less distant than on other occasions, true, but the iPhone 2G or Edge still sealed he left on August 18th at a price more than twice the pre-auction estimate: $ 35,414.
The fact that it was must have contributed to the record price one of the very first first generation iPhones to come off the production chain. An iPhone 2G with 12 icons on the homescreen, rather than the 13 units marketed around the end of 2007 with the thirteenth icon, that of iTunes. In short, the iPhone 2G with 8 GB of storage space at the auction is clearly one of the first to end up in the AT&T warehouses, and this has increased its collecting interest.
The sale took place as part of the auction Apple, Jobs, and Computer Hardware, in which the auctioneers of RR Auction submitted several Apple memorabilia to collectors. Among the most interesting objects, a First generation iPod still sealed with 5GB of music space sold the same day as the iPhone 2G for $ 25,000, and especially the Apple-1 prototype conceived by Steve Jobs to obtain the first large order of Apple welded by hand by Steve Wozniak. Price? $ 677,196.
