Steve Jobs’ Old Palm Slippers Sold For $200,000

An auction sold an historical pair of Steve Jobs’ Birkenstocks palm slippers for $200,000, the equal of N87m (Nigerian Naira).

According to the public sale house, the buy of a pair of ancient Birkenstock slippers owned and worn by means of Steve Jobs set a record for the very best price ever paid at auction for a pair of slippers. The tech pioneer’s brown suede Arizona sandals, which have been anticipated to fetch $60,000, fetched an awesome $218,750 at Julien’s Auctions over the weekend, in accordance to CNN.

The palm slippers, described as “well used” however nonetheless “intact” prior to the auction, were a cloth wardrobe staple for Jobs in the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s, according to the Californian public sale house. Jobs died in 2011 from pancreatic cancer complications. “The cork and jute footbed retains the imprint of Steve Jobs’ feet, which had been formed after years of use,” the public sale house stated on its website. 

The Birkenstocks were saved from the trash through Mark Sheff, a former residence manager to Steve Jobs, at some stage in one of the tech icon’s many clear-outs, it said. “Steve Jobs modified the world no longer solely with his revolutionary innovations however with his enterprise management style and fashion in sporting sandals,” Darren Julien, CEO and founder of Julien’s Auctions, told CNN in a assertion on Monday. “These loved Birkenstocks have been worn via Jobs as he made records in the making of the Apple laptop and had been the tech icon’s signature staple.”

The shoes were auctioned off as phase of Julien’s Auctions’ “Icons and Idols: Rock ‘n’ Roll” public sale, which blanketed memorabilia, clothing, musical equipment, and earrings from musicians and pop lifestyle figures such as Elvis Presley, Kurt Cobain, and John Lennon. A pair of Nike Air Ships worn by way of basketball legend Michael Jordan sold for $1.47 million in October of closing year, breaking the file for the easiest sale rate for a pair of sneakers at auction.