Photo: Alexandra Wyman/Getty; Julien’s Auctions
A pair ofSteve Jobs' Birkenstock sandals have been sold at auction for nearly a quarter of a million dollars.
Julien’s said Jobs wore the shoes “during many pivotal moments in Apple’s history,” including when he and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak started the company in a garage in Los Altos, Calif.
“When Jobs discovered the ingenuity and practicality of Birkenstocks, he became fascinated,” the auction house wrote.
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Jobsdied in 2011at age 56 followinga years-long battlewith pancreatic cancer. Mark Sheff, who previously served as Jobs' house manager, owned the late tech mogul’s sandals prior to the auction, according to Julien’s Auctions' listing.
In a 2016 email exchange with Insider, Sheff said hecollected the sandalsand other “random” items as Jobs threw them away.
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The shoes appear to be “intact,” though they seem to have gone through “heavy” wear-and-tear, Julien’s Auctions said.
Before Sunday’s sale, Jobs' sandals had previously been on exhibit in Italy, Germany and at Birkenstock’s first U.S. store in Manhattan between 2017 and 2022, per the auction house’s listing.
Most recently, the shoes were on display at the Wurttemberg History Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, from 2020 to 2022.
source: people.com
