Twitter’s blue bird logo sign — which formerly hung outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco — is up for auction for the second time.
The current seller, RR Auction, obtained the sign in Elon Musk’s 2023 auction of Twitter memorabilia. Musk sold off a slew of artifacts associated with Twitter — including a coffee table and beer tap — after his takeover of the company in 2022. Some items, like a Twitter-themed statue, sold for thousands.
The bird logo, nicknamed “Larry” after Celtics player Larry Bird, was synonymous with Twitter until Musk’s rebranding of the social-media platform to X in 2023.
Musk’s efforts to take down Twitter’s old signage in 2023 made headlines after police showed up and temporarily halted the work. The rebranding also included changes to the inside of the company headquarters, like replacing the blue birds with black walls and X-themed conference rooms. Musk has also moved X’s headquarters from San Francisco to Texas.
“Although Twitter and its light blue bird have since retired, the symbol remains an icon of tech and social media history, an instantly recognizable emblem in the same league as Nike or Apple Computer,” RR Auction said in the listing.
The auction house estimates the sign’s value at upward of $40,000. Eleven bids had already been placed as of Monday evening, driving the current price up to $21,664.
The bird is on sale as part of a larger auction dubbed “Steve Jobs and the Apple Revolution” that opened on February 27. Potential buyers have only a couple more days to bid before its end date of March 20.
Other items up for auction include Apple checks from the 1970s that were signed by Steve Jobs — with one bidding at over $89,000 — and a functional Apple I computer bidding at more than $205,000.
Whoever wins the bird logo will be responsible for paying to ship the hulking signage — which clocks in at roughly 560 pounds — from its current home in San Francisco storage to its final destination.
Business Insider reached out to RR Auction for comment.
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