I was just about to say, I had never noticed that about his signature until this picture, but I think it’s pretty cool that he signs all lowercase. I write my name that way a lot of the time too, just looks right to me somehow
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Check Signed by Steve Jobs Sells for Over $100k at Auction
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Guess they never cashed or deposited the check? 
I'll have to look thru my boxes for uncashed checks from others.
I'll have to look thru my boxes for uncashed checks from others.
My friend, I have so much gamer dinosaur bath water you would not believe it. Only $100/liter.
Huge sum!! Anything signed by Steve will be fetching huge sums in an auction.
Ever thought of laundering money with an allegedly old check from a deceased tech entrepreneur?
Well, it's done now.
Next, Steve Wozniak's first digital trash bin recovered in binary code
Well, it's done now.
Next, Steve Wozniak's first digital trash bin recovered in binary code
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In it's rightful place, as far as I'm concerned.
Yeah, I'm not the target audience for that kind of argument, as it simply reiterates my original observation, which was a personal one.
The "waste of money" would be the part where the extremely wealthy people have so much of it that they don't know what to do with it.
I mean, the money could literally change a bunch of people's lives, yet it was only used to buy a small piece of paper. But let's hope the seller has a better use for it. Wouldn't it be nice if it was some middle-class family that found the check among inherited documents rather than just another rich collector.
Is that more valuable than my collection of used tissues with Steve Balmer's tears?
A piece of paper. I’m betting a check with John F. Kennedy‘s signature wouldn’t sell for as much. That is the most ridiculous purchase I’ve seen in a while.
I was a banker during that era.
This "cashed" Check would have been sent back to Apple Computer Company with the business statement that correlates to the date that check cleared the bank.
The check was most likely stolen/taken by an employee or the company that was hired to shred old business documents.
Good penmanship is not something you inherit. It's an art that's perfected through exercise.
I wonder how much this would now be if cashed and invested in aapl at the time…
An Apple Computer Company check signed by Steve Jobs sold for $106,985 through an auction hosted by RR Auction. The check was filled out and signed by Jobs in 1976, and it was made out to Crampton, Remke, & Miller, INC, a consulting firm that offered its services to tech companies in Northern California.
Jobs' check is notable because it uses the first Apple address at 770 Welch Rd., Ste. 154, Palo Alto. This was the address of an answering service that Jobs and Wozniak used while working out of the Jobs family garage.
RR Auction VP Bobby Livingston said that early checks like this are desired because "they not only tell Apple's founding story, they are signed with perfect examples of Steve Jobs's autograph," plus they "allay collectors' concerns about the authenticity of Steve Jobs's signature."
Another early check signed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak was auctioned off in 2022, and that check sold for $164,000.
Article Link: Check Signed by Steve Jobs Sells for Over $100k at Auction
Dummies. It's only for $175 and it's likely expired, so they can't even cash it out.
Call Crampton, Remke & Miller for all your consulting needs. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk
This is a good way to authenticate an old signature, however, some celebrity checks were signed by machine.
Correct, my mother standing over me and have me following her hand writing until she found it satisfactory.
the cheque would have been sent to the recipients. You can see by the numerous banking stamps on the rear of the cheque that it went through the banks processing systems and then someone wrote over one of the stamps. If there was something wrong with the cheque wouldn't it have failed the first bank check? and subsequently been sent back to the cheque recipients?
The cheque show's 3 bank stamps so can you please explain to me how a cheque that would have been sent to the recipients and gone through 3 different banks end up back at Apple? If the cheque was bad wouldn't the bank give the cheque back to the recipients telling them it was no good? If the cheque was good, wouldn't the bank keep a hold of the cheque? Therefore how does it get back into Apple's hands? I am curious to know.
The check would have been deposited at a bank (with a teller that would stamp it) that the business had an account with. The bundles of balanced transactions from the teller department would travel to the proof department (OMG these machines were LOUD!) proof would encode the dollar amount on the bottom right side and stamp it with the depositing banks general endorsement. The check would transit to drawee bank. assuming proper funds in account and that it was properly signed and endorsed it would clear and would be placed with the statement for mailing to The Apple Computer Company's accounting department (or garage
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Once checks have been cleared and the funds transferred, they used to be returned to the person or company that wrote the check. In this case, the cleared check would get back to Apple.
How the check got into the seller's hands we don't know, but this is just how things were done back then. Every month you would receive an envelope in the post containing all the cleared checks you wrote the previous month along with the bank statement they were on. They were useful as proof the recipient deposited them, too, so it was a good idea to keep the larger ones for a few months in case a dispute arose. Part of banking responsibly would be to consolidate the account to make sure it matches your personal transaction register.
This practice stopped in the Internet era, but you can still see images of cleared checks you've written, with the recipient's endorsement, on your bank's website. Basically the same thing but electronic. The physical check doesn't even need to leave the recipient's hands anymore since they can be deposited electronically now.