Jobs’ application form may fetch $50,000 at auction
los angeles — A job application filled out by Steve Jobs more than four decades ago that reflects the Apple founder’s aspirations to work in technology and design will go up for auction next month.
With an estimated value of about $50,000, the one-page application from 1973, complete with spelling and punctuation errors, lists his name as “Steven jobs” and address as “reed college,” the Oregon college he attended briefly, Boston auction house RR Auction said.
Under a section titled “Special Abilities”, Jobs wrote “tech or design engineer. digital. — from Bay near Hewitt-Packard”, a reference to pioneering California technology company Hewlett-Packard.
The document but does not state what position Jobs was applying for. Jobs and friend Steve Wozniak founded Apple about three years later. Jobs died of cancer in 2011 at the age of 56. Though Jobs responded on the form that he had a driver’s licence, he said his access to transportation was “possible, but not probable.” Next to “Phone:” he wrote “none.”
The document will be part of a pop culture sale by RR Auction that will take place between March 8 and 15.
Two other Jobs items will appear in the same auction — a Mac OS X technical manual signed by Jobs in 2001, valued at $25,000, and a signed 2008 newspaper clipping, valued at $15,000, with a photo of Jobs and a headline that reads “New, faster iPhone will sell for $199.”
The auction will also feature an original fingerprint card from Jimi Hendrix’s 1969 arrest in Toronto on drug charges, signed by the late rock musician, which is valued at $15,000. —