Fifty years ago, a nineteen-year-old named Bob Eaton ran a twenty-lot mail-bid auction on page 61 of Sports Collectors Digest. His younger cousin was there to watch. This is the story of how RR Auction grew from that half-page ad into a world-class house.
The earliest known check drawn from Apple’s original bank account sold for $2,409,886 as RR Auction closed Steve Jobs & the Computer Revolution: The Apple 50th Anniversary Auction.
This year marks fifty years since I started RR Auction. It’s hard to believe. Back in 1976, I was a kid in Boston with a love of collecting and no real sense of where it would all lead.
