How a lot would you pay for a used pair of sneakers? A couple of dollars, most likely. What in the event that they had been owned by Steve Jobs? The quantity you could be prepared to place down certainly goes up fairly a bit. However would it not go as much as virtually 220,000?

That’s what a pair of Birkenstock owned by the co-founder of Apple auctioned for over the weekend.

By no means decide a person till you’ve paid ~$220,000 for his sneakers

Steve Jobs handed away in 2011 after main Apple for a lot of the earlier three a long time. He constructed up fairly a following throughout that point as probably the most necessary figures of the pc age.

Objects he’s owned come up for public sale sometimes, and so they usually fetch excessive costs. One among his enterprise playing cards bought in 2021 for $12,905, for instance. So when a pair of brown suede leather-based Birkenstock Arizona sandals Jobs had worn had been going up for public sale, the estimated worth was between $60,000 and $80,000.

Not even shut. The precise worth the sneakers fetched was $218,750 in an public sale held over the weekend at Julie’s Public sale.

They’re in pretty fine condition for objects which can be virtually 50 years outdated. “The sandals are properly used, however nonetheless seem intact. Every sandal options its unique Birkenstock adjustable buckles and Birkenstock stamping on the inside fringe of the suede leather-based foot straps,” notes Julie’s Public sale. “The cork and jute footbed retains the imprint of Steve Jobs’ ft, which had been formed after years of use.”

Iconic Steve Jobs memorabilia

After sporting the Birkenstocks within the Nineteen Seventies and Nineteen Eighties in the course of the time he and Steve Wozniak based Apple, Jobs gave the outdated sneakers away with a bunch of different objects… apparently as junk. Mark Sheff, Jobs’ home supervisor on the time, informed Enterprise Insider in 2016, “We saved some, shared some with the landscapers and buddies and introduced some to Goodwill.”

The sandals have had an thrilling post-Jobs life. They’ve been on show at varied instances, most notably on the Birkenstock Headquarters in Rahms, Germany in 2017, in accordance with Julie’s Public sale.