Souvenir Desert Eagle | Meteorite (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

Meteorite is a restrained Desert Eagle finish: near-black metal with a cracked, crystal-like texture and warm bronze accents on the slide. In Minimal Wear the look is practically the same as a fresh copy, with only faint marks that are hard to spot in game. It offers the full dark style without paying for the cleanest grade.

Item type: pistol. Mil-Spec Grade is the lowest rarity found in cases and the most common one among them.

Anodized Multicolored: several colours in the metal coating; it wears little, the colours only dull with use.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Factory New and Field-Tested.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The slide and frame are coated in near-black gunmetal with a dense web of thin crystalline lines in brown, grey and bronze. Along the top of the slide the paint catches warm bronze highlights, while the front of the slide near the muzzle shows lighter grey, stone-like patches.

Minimal Wear adds faint scratches mainly on the slide edges and the muzzle face. The crystalline web stays intact and the metallic sheen is mostly preserved. In game these marks are almost invisible against the dark base, and the grip still looks clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir Desert Eagle | Meteorite ranges from 0 to 0.18; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 44% of this skin’s scale. Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

Souvenir Desert Eagle | Meteorite belongs to The Bank Collection, which holds 16 skins. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

Price by quality

By price this skin is 7th of 11 skins Mil-Spec Grade Desert Eagle in this quality (the first being the dearest).

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Bronze, gold and holo stickers with warm tones echo the highlights on the slide. Dark or monochrome stickers on the slide keep the restrained look, while a single bright accent stands out well against the black base.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position, since the range ends early and low Field-Tested copies look close to Minimal Wear.
• Inspect the slide edges and the muzzle face, which show wear first.
• For Souvenir copies, look at the pre-applied stickers, as they cannot be changed and define the look.
• Check any name tag or applied stickers and whether they match the dark finish.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a clean-looking Desert Eagle without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters, since faint marks hide under the dark finish.
• Conclusion: a balanced choice with almost no visible difference in game.