The Steve Jobs signed business card auction has reached $77,816 with 17 bids, according to RR Auction’s live listing, but the figure is not a sale price. The auction house lists a next minimum bid of $85,598 and says bidding closes August 20, 2026. Neither figure establishes the closing price.
The lot is a circa-1983 Apple Computer business card signed “steve jobs” in black ink. It carries the rainbow Apple logo and identifies Jobs as “Chairman, Board of Directors,” a title printed alongside Apple’s Cupertino address and phone number. RR Auction set an estimate of $60,000 or more for the card.
The current bid is below the $181,183 paid for another signed 1983 Jobs business card at RR Auction on March 21, 2024. Antique Trader reported that the earlier result included the buyer’s premium and far exceeded that card’s $10,000 presale estimate. It is a useful comparison, not a prediction: the present lot remains open.
What is the current bid on the Steve Jobs signed business card?
At the time captured on RR Auction’s Lot 4023 page, the bid stood at $77,816 after 17 bids. The auction began July 24 and is scheduled to end August 20. RR Auction’s rules say its 30-minute rule begins at 7 p.m. EDT that day, with an initial bid required by 6 p.m. EDT to continue participating afterward.
The auction house says PSA/DNA encapsulated the card and assigned it a GEM MT 10 grade. That is the catalog’s stated grading result, not a blanket description of every visible feature. In the same listing, RR Auction describes the card as being in fine condition with light soiling and staple holes in its upper section, adding that those marks do not affect the signature.
Why is this 1983 card being compared with the 2024 sale?
RR Auction, as reported by Tom’s Hardware, described the lot as its second signed 1983 Jobs card. Its catalog says it has offered 15 Jobs business cards in total and that four were from the 1983 period. Those are auction-house counts, not an independently audited census of Jobs cards in private hands.
The 2024 example provides the clearest price benchmark in the available record. Antique Trader said the $181,183 sale followed bidding at RR Auction’s March 2024 Jobs and Apple-themed event; the auction house’s executive vice president, Bobby Livingston, said at the time that it set a new standard for autographed business cards. That statement was RR Auction’s assessment, and it does not establish what this lot will bring when the auction ends.
For prospective bidders, the basic mechanics are unglamorous: the listed amount reflects the leading bid, while the realized price comes only after bidding has closed and any applicable auction charges are accounted for. This card has not reached that stage.
This story draws on original reporting from Tom's Hardware.
