Worn-out Birkenstocks owned by Steve Jobs up for auction
In the USA, an unknown person bought the worn-out sandals of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs at auction – for a whopping 218,750 US dollars. The “well-used” Birkenstocks in brown suede would have fetched the highest price ever paid for a sandal. that shared the auction house Julien’s Auctions.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was considered a passionate and staunch Birkenstock wearer. Now, a pair of sandals Jobs is said to have worn in the 1970s and 1980s has been sold at auction in the United States for $218,750. This was announced by the auction house responsible, Julien’s Auctions site With.
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Steve Jobs’ Birkenstocks: Unknown pays $ 218,750
Mark Sheff, Steve Jobs’ estate, had previously recovered the brown suede sandals from the garbage. The battered Birkenstocks that Jobs is said to have worn in Apple’s founding years were originally intended to fetch between $60,000 and $80,000.
However, the ultimate buyer, who wished to remain unknown, shelled out around three times as much. On top of that there was a
360 degree rotatable NFT. This non-fungible token contains an exclusive digital representation of Steve Jobs’ Birkenstock sandals.
Steve Jobs’ footprint
In 2016, estate manager Mark Sheff explained that Business Insiderthat Jobs “kept very few things”. Back then, he secured the pair of Birkenstocks that the Apple founder actually wanted to throw away. Sheff auctioned the sandals that same year for around $2,000.
Now the worn-out slippers achieved around a hundred times as much. Finally, the sandals are “well used but appear to be intact,” according to the ad. Jobs’ footprint can also be seen on the cork footbed.
Estate from the Apple founder under the hammer
Prior to the auction, the Birkenstocks were on view at various exhibitions, including at the Salone del Mobile in Milan and at Birkenstock headquarters in Germany.
Meanwhile, in 2012, a Steve Jobs memo and a working Apple I motherboard fetched around $400,000 at auction. A VideoPad prototype that the Apple founder actually wanted to scrap brought in $14,000 last year.
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