What makes a copy Souvenir

The Souvenir P250 | Contamination (Factory New, FN) is the Souvenir copy of this skin — the same Industrial Grade finish, handed out in a souvenir package at a Major rather than pulled from a case. Valve is behind this finish, which layers a hydrographic pattern of skulls and bones — a nod to nuclear hazard imagery — across a gray, rugged base coat. 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 P250 | Contamination

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 finish is part of The Cache Collection, which debuted with the July 2014 update.

Can a Souvenir P250 | Contamination 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 P250 | Contamination?

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.