A plain white restaurant napkin outlining the agreement between Lionel Messi, one of the world's greatest soccer players, and FC Barcelona, the Catalonian club that propelled him to stardom, sold at an online auction by the U.K.-based firm Bonhams on Friday for 762,400 British pounds, equivalent to about $968,600.
The starting bid for the standard, white, waxy-papered restaurant accessory scrawled all over in blue ballpoint pen was 300,000 pounds (roughly $381,000).
