Since the high 2014 result, Klarnet noted the market has cooled to around $300,000 to $400,000 for the Apple edition- noting he believes the item currently on offer will go for the current market value. And in May 2019, in a Christie’s London collectibles sale, another edition of the early prototype achieved just over $500,000. In March, Boston-based RR Auction sold a 1976 Apple-1 computer for a total of $458,711. The high point of the market for an early Apple board was reached in 2014, when an Apple-1 model sold for a record price of $905,000 at Bonhams in New York, far exceeding its pre-sale expectations between $300,000 and $500,000. By 1984 you had a Mac with a graphic usable interface, that’s how quickly this progressed.” “These models were sold to hobbyists,” said Klarnet, who added that once the founders got their momentum with Apple computer in 1977 and rolled out the Apple-2 model, it marked a period of rapid advance in the burgeoning computer market-“which basically made the Apple-1 obsolete. Christie’s Head of Books and Manuscripts, Peter Klarnet notes about 70 to 80 are believed to have survived from the original edition. Featuring just a “motherboard” that could be modified and attached to a monitor, the 200 hand-crafted models assembled by co-founder Steve Wozniak, retailed between $450-700. It was famously assembled in a garage in Palo Alto, California. Launched in July 1976, the same year Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and partner Steve Wozniak, the Apple-1 was the company’s first desktop computer.
The iconic American brand has garnered a cult following in recent years that has manifested at the highest levels of the re-sale market. One of the few remaining examples of Apple Inc’s first computer, the Apple-1 from 1976, is being offered by private sale via Christie’s.
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