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Wells Fargo bank check, 7.5 x 3, filled out and signed by Steve Jobs, "steven jobs," payable to the University Art Center for $13.25, March 22, 1976. Remarkably, Jobs also pens the fledgling firm's name and phone number in the upper left, "Apple Computer Co., 968-3596," and writes out the address at the famed 'Apple Garage' property in Los Altos.
This temporary check, issued upon opening Apple's first bank account, bears the same routing and account numbers as other early Apple Computer Company checks we have offered—most of those, however, date to July 1976 and are imprinted with Apple's first official address at '770 Welch Rd., Ste. 154, Palo Alto'—the location of an answering service and mail drop that they used while still operating out of the famous Jobs family garage. We have offered just two similarly early examples, both dated March 19, 1976; the present check is unique among these, as it boasts the company's name and address in Jobs's own hand. In fine condition. Encapsulated and graded by PSA/DNA as "GEM MT 10."
Marked as check "No. 5," this ultra-early check pre-dates the official founding of Apple Computer, Inc.—some ten days later, on April 1, 1976, co-founders Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne would sign the partnership agreement that officially brought Apple Computer into existence.
In March 1976, the month of this check, Wozniak had completed work on an innovative microcomputer design—now known as the Apple-1 Computer—and Jobs suggested that they sell it. This payment to the "University Art Center" may well have been for supplies or materials connected with their early Apple-1 marketing efforts. An absolutely outstanding, ultra-early piece of Apple Computer history.
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