The “Hanspeter Luzi Vintage Apple Archive” will be auctioned off in California next month, containing more than 500 classic Apple products released between 1977 and 2008, spanning nearly half a century and collected by the late Swiss teacher and entrepreneur Hanspeter Luzi over the decades. Luzi collected over the decades.
Julien’s Auctions will present the collection at a live and online auction in Beverly Hills on March 30, and an exhibition from March 27 to March 30, where the items will be on display.
Some of the items are very rare, such as the 1983 Lisa I computer, which is estimated to fetch $10,000 to $20,000. The Lisa I computer is a very important item to Apple collectors, being one of the first personal computers to offer a graphical user interface and a famous commercial failure, with only about 10,000 units sold. Other items in the collection are somewhat less expensive, including a 1986 Apple Macintosh Plus computer with keyboard and mouse, currently estimated to fetch $300 to $500, and a special edition “Blue Dalmatian” from 2001, the now iconic iMac G3, which will fetch $200 to $300.
In addition to computers, the collection includes some other interesting Apple gadgets, such as a 1994 Apple QuickTake 100 camera, expected to fetch $200-$300, described by Julien’s Auctions as “one of the first commercially successful digital camera series,” which was discontinued in 1997. Discontinued in 1997, it had a maximum resolution of 640 x 480 pixels and supported 24-bit color. There is also a 1983-1984 Apple joystick for the Apple IIE or IIC computer system in its original packaging, as well as a 1979-1983 Summagraphics MacTablet original, one of the first commercially available graphics boards.
Some vintage Apple products have sold for significant prices at auction in recent weeks, with an unopened, first-generation iPhone selling for nearly $40,000 at auction last October. Just last week, another immaculate 16-year-old iPhone sold for more than $63,000, more than 100 times its 2007 launch price of $599. Last November, Steve Jobs’ well-worn Birkenstock sandals fetched nearly $220,000.
