The Forged Apple Employee Badge – cabel.com

Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! What an incredible piece of Apple history! Sure, it’s not Steve Jobs’ badge (despite the auction title), but there are only so many of these in the world — especially from one of the first ten employees.

At first, it looked good. The plastic was scuffed with age, the tape on the map was yellowed, the logo was correct, Sherry Livingston really was Employee #10.

But, that map — it felt a little off. (“Tennis courts?”) And I couldn’t stop looking at the “typewritten” part…

This badge would’ve been (obviously!) made before desktop publishing. A badge template would’ve been printed by a local printing company, then fed into a typewriter to type the individual employee details. And that typed text is way, way cleaner than any typewriter I’ve seen.

It seems like the German Red Cross runs a kind of second hand/charity shop, so ok, sure. But why would the German Red Cross have the employee badge for Apple Employee #10?

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