Souvenir Glock-18 | Death Rattle (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

Glock-18 | Death Rattle covers the pistol in a brown snakeskin hydrographic, with tan scale blotches over a darker scaled base. In Minimal Wear the small scale texture stays crisp and the contrast between light and dark patches is at its sharpest. This is the cleanest grade the skin is available in.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Industrial Grade is the second tier from the bottom: common skins from drops and collections.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

Other qualities of this skin: Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The slide, frame and grip are covered in a continuous snakeskin hydrographic: a dense pattern of small scales in dark brown with large irregular tan blotches. On the slide the blotches run along the top and sides, while the grip shows the lighter patches most clearly.

Minimal Wear shows only tiny marks, mostly on the front edge of the slide near the muzzle. The scale texture on the slide and grip remains fully defined. In game at normal distance it looks the same as a clean copy. All tan blotches keep their full colour.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.08–0.15

The float of Souvenir Glock-18 | Death Rattle ranges from 0.08 to 0.5; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.08–0.15 — 17% 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

The skin’s collection is The Bank Collection with 16 skins in total. 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

Among 7 skins of the Glock-18 in the Industrial Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 3rd by price, counting from 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.

Which stickers suit it

Brown, gold, beige and muted green stickers blend with the earthy snakeskin finish. Matte or paper stickers on the slide keep the natural look, while a single bright gold sticker can work as an accent.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since copies near the cleaner end look noticeably fresher.
• Look at the front edge of the slide and the trigger guard, as these lose paint first.
• Compare how the tan blotches fall on the slide and grip, because placement differs between copies.
• Souvenir copies come with preset stickers, so check whether they suit you before buying.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Collectors who want the cleanest available version of the skin.
• Players who prefer crisp scale detail on the slide.
• The best choice for the sharpest look of this pattern.