A pair of old Birkenstock sandals once worn by Apple founder Steve Jobs are expected to fetch $80,000 at auction.
The departed tech mogul’s old sandals are being sold off by California auction house Julien’s.
According to Julien’s the sandals were worn by Steve Jobs in the ’70s and ’80s and were previously owned by the Apple founder’s house manager Mark Sheff.
Apple founder NFT
As well as the honour of owning a 40-year-old pair of grungy sandals the successful auction bidder will also receive a one of a kind NFT of the Birkenstocks.
What more could you want from $80,000 of investment?
In a posting accompanying the auction lot it said: “Steve Jobs wore these sandals during many pivotal moments in Apple’s history.
“In 1976, he hatched the beginnings of Apple computer in a Los Altos garage with Apple’s co-founder Steve Wozniak while occasionally wearing these sandals.
“When Jobs discovered the ingenuity and practicality of Birkenstocks, he became fascinated”.
The sandals have been a part of multiple exhibitions, including Salone del Mobile in Milano, Italy in 2017, at the Birkenstock Headquarters in Rahms, Germany in 2017, at Birkenstock’s first United States store in SoHo, New York, at IMM Koln, a furniture fair in Cologne, Germany, Zeit Event Berlin for the magazine Die Zeit in 2018, and most recently with the History Museum Wurttemberg in Stuttgart, Germany.
In another enduring sign of the legacy of the late Steve Jobs his tech firm was this week named as the world’s most valuable brand.
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