Do YOU have an old Apple gadget that’s worth a fortune? How rare Mac computers, collectable iPhones and 30-year-old cameras are now selling for hundreds of thousands of pounds

New Apple iPhones, Macs and Watches do not come cheap.

They are released to much fanfare and sell for anywhere from around £250 to more than £7,000 — but that still pales in comparison to what some older models are going for.

Despite the first generation iPhone only being released 16 years ago, rare early models have been fetching up to $190,000 (£145,000) because they’re already seen as collectors’ items.

Last week an unopened 4GB first edition model, described as ‘exceedingly rare’ and the ‘holy grail’ for collectors, was bought for more than 300 times the $599 (£457) price it was marketed at in 2007.

So what other Apple products have sold for vast amounts? And do you have anything similar in an old drawer or cupboard that could make you a small fortune? MailOnline reveals the sort of thing to look out for.

Steve Jobs’ original ‘Apple Computer A’ prototype

Considered ‘lost’ until fairly recently, the prototype for Apple’s first ever computer sold for an astronomical amount of money last year.

The ‘Apple Computer A’ – hand-soldered by the tech giant’s co-founder Steve Wozniak in 1976 – was bought at auction for $700,000 (£544,000). 

Billed as a ‘rare’ and ‘historic’ item, it is essentially a circuit board covered in chips and wires, embossed with the words ‘Apple Computer A ©76’.

The prototype was the jumping point to the Apple-1 computer, which was released in April 1976, the year that Apple was founded.

‘There is no Apple-1 without this board — it’s the holy grail of Steve Jobs and Apple memorabilia,’ RR Auction executive vice president Bobby Livingston told AP last year. 

Prior to being sold at auction, the previous owner kept it for 30 years after being gifted the computer by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs.