The auction for the napkin that famously launched Lionel Messi's Barcelona career as a 13-year-old has opened this week with a guide price of £300,000-£500,000 ($374,700-$624,500). Bidding for the item currently stands at £220,000 and will remain open with the British auction house Bonhams until May 17.
The sale, originally scheduled for March, was postponed due to a dispute over the ownership of the napkin, which has been in the possession of Horacio Gaggioli, an Argentine agent, for the past two decades.
