The starting price was just 99p and it moved up smoothly to ?600 after three days. But when it reached ?1000 the bids rocketed until, in the last hour, the total jumped from ?5455 to ?10,000 ? then on to ?35,000, ?90,000 and ?100,000.

The anonymous winning bidder has an eBay user score of 74. In total 43 people placed 99 bids. The cash will go to benefit the Street League charity.