Souvenir M4A4 | Griffin (Factory New)

Skin overview

M4A4 | Griffin is a hand-painted finish that places a griffin illustration on a dark grey rifle, with a white eagle head and copper-brown wings across the receiver and magazine well. In Factory New the white head, the fine feather lines and the teal accents on the magazine are fully intact. The illustration reads exactly as drawn, with crisp edges between the copper and the grey base.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Restricted sits in the middle of the rarity scale: noticeably rarer than Mil-Spec, yet not truly rare.

Custom Paint Job: hand-painted across the whole body; this is the type where wear shows most, the artwork rubs down to metal.

Other qualities of this skin: Well-Worn. The same quality also exists as the StatTrak™ version.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The rifle has a dark grey gunmetal base, and the main illustration sits on the receiver and magazine well: a griffin with a white eagle head and brown-copper feathered wings spreading down toward the grip. The magazine continues the artwork with copper framing and teal-green panels, while the pistol grip and lower receiver carry the same warm brown tone.

There is no visible wear: the griffin's white head, the feather linework and the teal magazine panels look exactly as on the clean preview. Edges of the magazine and the handguard rails keep their paint. In game the copper and white stand out sharply against the grey body. Every part of the rifle looks clean.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The float of Souvenir M4A4 | Griffin ranges from 0 to 0.8; the Factory New quality covers 0–0.07 — 9% 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 Vanguard Collection with 14 skins in total.

The source is Operation Vanguard Weapon Case (on sale since Nov 5, 2014).

Price by quality

Compared with the Factory New quality, the others go like this:

• Minimal Wear — 2.3× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 32× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 54× cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 9 skins of the M4A4 in the Restricted grade and this quality, this skin is 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

Copper, gold, brown and white stickers match the griffin's palette, and teal or green accents echo the magazine panels. Placements on the handguard and the upper receiver keep the central griffin visible.

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float within the chosen grade, since copies near the cleaner boundary keep noticeably more of the griffin.
• Look at the magazine edges and the wing tips first, because they lose paint before the rest of the illustration.
• Make sure the white griffin head is still bright on worn copies, as it carries most of the design.
• Review any applied stickers and name tag to see whether they cover the griffin on the receiver.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the illustration with every feather line intact.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean base that matches warm copper tones.
• The choice for buyers who value the artwork exactly as painted.