An egg bought from a supermarket was donated to a British charity and fetched $250 at auction due to an unusual feature: its `almost perfectly spherical`shape.

The egg was originally found in a dozen bought from a grocery store in Ayr, Scotland, and was purchased by Lambourn, Berkshire, resident Ed Pownell for $187 via auction house Thomson Roddick Callan. Powell donated the egg to the Inventas Foundation, a charity that supports young people in Oxfordshire. The charity group sold the egg as part of a fundraiser auction on the website.