What makes a copy Souvenir

The Souvenir Tec-9 | Brass (Battle-Scarred, BS) is the Souvenir copy of this skin — the same Mil-Spec Grade finish, handed out in a souvenir package at a Major rather than pulled from a case. The idea stays consistent across every copy: sections of the weapon have been replaced with brass, set against the Tec-9's factory black, exactly as Valve describes it. Battle-Scarred covers everything from 0.45 up to 1.00 float — the most heavily worn grade and the cheapest way into the skin.

What the stickers do to the price of the Tec-9 | Brass

A souvenir copy exists only because someone opened a souvenir package during a Major. It comes with up to four stickers tied to one specific match — the two line-ups, the MVP of that match and the event logo — and those stickers are permanent. A Souvenir skin is never StatTrak™ — the two are mutually exclusive.

Where it comes from

What a souvenir copy is worth depends less on the finish than on whose stickers it carries. A legendary player or a famous final pushes a copy well above the plain version; an anonymous match leaves it close to one.

FAQ

Brass belongs to The Inferno Collection, released with the Arms Deal update in August 2013, and it was never attached to any weapon case.

Can a Souvenir Tec-9 | Brass 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 Tec-9 | Brass?

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.