Sticker | INS (Glitter) | Shanghai 2024

This is the Glitter-finish autograph of INS representing Flyquest from the Perfect World Shanghai 2024 lineup. It is an official autograph sticker produced for the Shanghai 2024 Contenders Autograph Capsule and carries Valve as the listed designer.

Glitter sits above the paper base and the standard holo/foil tier for this set, placing it among the premium film options collectors chase. Within the finish ladder for the Shanghai 2024 stickers, Glitter reads as a clear step up from plain stock while remaining under the absolute top-tier specialty finishes.

Collectors prize the Glitter film because it visually amplifies the signature and holds better on crafted weapons than the paper counterpart. Given its premium finish rank, it is chosen by hobbyists who want a livelier in-game appearance and a more noticeable collector variant over the base autograph.

The autograph is INS's and it ties the sticker directly to Flyquest, so provenance is straightforward and full. That confirmed link between player, team, and signature matters to collectors who favor authenticated hand-signed pieces within a set.

It originates from the Shanghai 2024 Contenders Autograph Capsule, which groups this sticker with other autograph issues from that event. The capsule origin marks it as part of the event release and places it in the set's autograph family rather than the community or team-only drops.

Applied stickers can be scraped thinner as they wear and are destroyed if removed, so any craft or in-game application reduces available clean stock. Every time a sticker is used in a craft it burns a copy from circulation, so pristine examples only become rarer as items are applied.

This piece carries a Remarkable rarity grade and sits in the mid-level rarity band for stickers. That grade underpins its collectible position: more uncommon than base papers but not in the fixed-print elite tiers.

Collectors tend to place Glitter autographs on showpiece skins where the film plays off the weapon finish, and INS signatures are no exception when buyers want a signature that reads in match footage and screenshots. Because crafting consumes supply, demand for clean Glitter autographs can push attention toward well-placed applications on desirable weapons.

As part of the Perfect World Shanghai 2024 release, this sticker falls into the newer stream of event-linked autograph drops that followed the established capsule model. Its standing is defined by that event capsule and the wave of Contenders autograph releases that populate recent sticker sets.