The Scholes listing holds 23 Manchester United items and 14 England shirts. The United shirts are mostly numbered 18, with a 2011-12 home shirt numbered 22 from after his brief retirement. The England shirts are numbered 8, with one 1997-99 away shirt numbered 16.
That is the clearest dating key here. Scholes wore 18 at United for almost his whole career, from 1996 through to 2010-11. The 22 belongs to his final season, 2011-12, after he came out of retirement. For England he wore 8 from 1999 onwards and 16 earlier.
The listing spreads across 1996 to 2011 fairly evenly, with 2006-07 the deepest single season. Home shirts outnumber away shirts roughly two to one, with a handful of third shirts. One item is a 2001-02 Manchester United Centenary away/third shirt, a one-season design made for the club’s hundredth year.
Grades run from 4/10 to 10/10 with a median around 6/10, so several of these show real wear. A number of shirts are in youth sizing, marked Y or by age range. Scholes made 466 league appearances for United between 1993 and 2011 plus 33 more in 2012-13, scoring 107 in total, and won 66 England caps.
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