Souvenir XM1014 | Charter (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This is the Consumer Grade XM1014 skin built around heraldic crests and handwritten text in tan over a dark brown-olive base. Minimal Wear keeps the pattern practically intact, with only faint marks that are hard to spot outside close inspection. For most buyers it gives the same document-style look as a factory-fresh copy.

Item type: shotgun. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

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

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

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The barrel and the magazine tube beneath it are fully covered with a dark olive-brown base carrying tan crests, flourishes and lines of handwritten text. The same pattern continues across the side and top of the receiver, while the ribbed pump handguard stays a plain dark grey-brown.

Light marks may appear at the muzzle and on the sharpest edges of the receiver rail. The lettering on the barrel and magazine tube stays complete. At normal distance in game the skin is practically indistinguishable from Factory New. The receiver sides, pump and stock remain clean.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir XM1014 | Charter ranges from 0 to 0.65; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 12% 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 XM1014 | Charter belongs to The Control Collection, which holds 19 skins. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

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

Stickers in tan, gold, brown or muted red match the parchment-and-ink theme of the pattern. Placing them on the plain pump handguard or the receiver side keeps the barrel script uncovered.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since a low float in a worn grade keeps noticeably more script on the barrel.
• Inspect the muzzle and the receiver rail first, as these parts lose the tan print earliest.
• If you consider a Souvenir copy, look at which stickers it carries and how they sit on the receiver.
• Look at the name tag and any applied stickers, because they change how the calm document pattern reads.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-flawless look without paying for the cleanest grade.
• Sticker crafters, since faint marks do not affect the overall build.
• Conclusion: a sensible balance between appearance and cost.