RONALDO NAZÁRIO SHIRTS

The Inter Milan shirts here carry #10 for the 1997-98 season, his first at the club, then #9 for 1998-99 and 1999-2000, both home and away versions across the three seasons. All are Nike, and this stretch is the largest single block in the collection: five different Inter shirts across three seasons, in sizes from S to XL. This is the era most collectors mean when they search simply for "Ronaldo jersey", before the injuries that shaped the rest of his career at Real Madrid.

Real Madrid shirts range from 2002-03 through 2005-06, mostly #9 in home and away kits across four seasons, plus a 2002-03 Centenary away shirt marking the club's hundredth anniversary, worn with #11 for that one occasion. All are Adidas, the brand behind every Real Madrid shirt in this collection, and the Real Madrid run is nearly as deep as the Inter years, with pieces from four separate seasons.

The AC Milan shirts from 2006-07 and 2007-08 carry #99, an unusual number for a striker and one of the more searched-for details of his career. Both are Adidas third kits from his two seasons in Milan colours, a short chapter compared with Inter and Real Madrid but a distinctive one for anyone looking specifically for the 99, and searched for on its own rather than lumped in with his more common number 9.

The Brazil shirts span #20 from 1993-94, his very first call-ups as a teenager, through to #9 across shirts from 1998, 2000-02, 2002-04 and 2006-08, in both home and away versions. A single Barcelona shirt from the 1995-97 seasons, made by Kappa, marks his time there with #9, before the move to Inter. Between the four clubs and Brazil, this collection runs from the early nineties through to the 2000s, with every shirt an original from its own season, hand-checked and photographed individually, and measured pit to pit and top to bottom rather than to a modern size label.