The picture was taken in 1983 when the Macintosh workforce visited town for a gathering with Newsweek. It was posted by Andy Hertzfield to Google+ ‘in reminiscence of Steve Jobs as 2011 attracts to a detailed’.
The leather-based bomber jacket is up for public sale at present as a part of a “Steve Jobs and the Apple Revolution” occasion organised by RR Public sale.
How RR Public sale describes the jacket
“Steve Jobs’s personally-owned and -worn darkish brown leather-based bomber jacket, made by Wilkes Bashford of San Francisco, famously seen in an iconic 1983 {photograph} of Jobs flipping the fowl to an IBM check in New York Metropolis. The zip-up jacket encompasses a black shearling collar, white shearling lining, and two snap-down pouch pockets on the entrance. In superb situation, with normal put on from use.
The well-known picture of Jobs surfaced in 2011, when it was posted on-line by Andy Hertzfeld, a member of the unique Macintosh growth workforce. He recalled: ‘In December 1983, a number of weeks earlier than the Mac launch, we made a fast journey to New York Metropolis to fulfill with Newsweek, who was contemplating doing a canopy story on the Mac. The picture was taken spontaneously as we walked round Manhattan by Jean Pigozzi, a wild French jet setter who was hanging out with us on the time.
Provenance: From the caretakers of the Jackling Home (1984-1990), Julien’s Auctions, September 23, 2016. Steve Jobs bought Jackling Home—a historic property in Woodside, California—in 1984, and he resided there for a decade.”
