What makes a copy Souvenir

The Souvenir Nova | Polar Mesh (Factory New, FN) is the Souvenir copy of this skin — the same Consumer Grade finish, handed out in a souvenir package at a Major rather than pulled from a case. Polar Mesh gives the Nova a gray spray-painted coat created by masking the body with mesh fencing and cardboard cutouts, so the stencils leave a crisscrossed, industrial texture. Factory New is the cleanest grade this skin comes in and the one buyers pay the most for, covering the 0.00–0.07 band of the float scale.

What the stickers do to the price of the Nova | Polar Mesh

These copies come out of souvenir packages handed to people watching a Major, not out of a case. Each one arrives wearing up to four stickers from the match that produced it: both teams, the MVP and the tournament, fixed in place from the moment it drops. A Souvenir skin is never StatTrak™ — the two are mutually exclusive.

Where it comes from

Price here is mostly a sticker question. Two souvenir copies of the same skin at the same exterior can sit far apart because one came from a memorable match and the other did not — check the stickers on a listing before comparing figures.

FAQ

This skin is part of The Train Collection, introduced with the "Out with the old, in with the new" update in November 2013.

Can a Souvenir Nova | Polar Mesh be StatTrak?

No. Souvenir and StatTrak™ are mutually exclusive — a copy is one or the other, never both, and neither can be added to a skin after it drops.

Can the stickers be removed from a Souvenir Nova | Polar Mesh?

No. Souvenir stickers are part of the copy and cannot be scraped off, unlike stickers a player applies themselves. That is why two souvenir copies of one skin at the same exterior can be priced far apart.