That would be an awesome find! Is it a facelift E39 wheel aka you can reuse your airbag and swap your switches over? As long as it has lower trim you're good!
49 gbp is nothing for that! Also if you search German eBay, I would search for "e46 or e39 lenkrad" as it's more likely to find pre facelift wheels for those cars than e53.
I got my steering wheel from eBay Germany for 250 shipped and I kept my old wheel.