Gibson L-5 CES
guitar · 1986–2016
Typical used€6,450
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Why this number?
The typical used price is the median of 12 used sales observed in the last 24 months, with outliers removed and the figure rounded. An observed sale is often the last asking price rather than a confirmed hammer price.
| Typical used price | €6,450 | median sold, rounded |
| Most sold between | €5,100–€7,500 | 25th to 75th percentile, same window |
| Window | last 24 months | the tightest of 90 days, 6 months and 24 months with 8 used sales |
| Sample | 12 used sales | thin data, treat as a rough guide |
| Time to sell | — | only counted from listings we watch start to finish; not enough yet |
| Sell-through | 0% | 12 watched listings resolved, 6 months |
| Didn’t sell here | €10,500 | median ask of 12 listings that ended without a sale, 6 months, 63% above typical used; all from Japan; 12 withdrawn by the seller |
| Live asks | €11,286 | typical ask across 56 listings, 75% above typical used |
| Outliers | dropped | beyond 10× the product’s own median: bundles, parts, typos |
| All-time | €6,000 | 106 used sales, 2014–2026; not used for deals |
| Sales on record | 114 | all-time, all platforms |
Typical prices are rounded (to 5 / 10 / 50 / 100 by size, in whichever currency you read); asks and the chart are exact. As of 18 October 2026. Full method, including what each badge means
For sale right now
The best-priced as cards, a row of them; every other ad as a line, by ask. Each ask is the seller’s own number; the platform’s mark opens the listing. Each one says when we last confirmed it at its source: the price and availability are from that visit, so check the marketplace before you go.
Reverb
50 more live · €8,398–€25,133 · typical ask €11,286 · 35 Japan · 7 United States
- €8,39830% over typicalgood ·
United States · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago - €8,51932% over typicalgood ·
Japan · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago - €8,68535% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €8,79836% over typicalvery good · United States · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago
- €8,80637% over typicalvery good · Japan · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago
- €8,92238% over typicalgood · United States · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €9,08141% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €9,69850% over typicalvery good · Japan · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago
- €9,72851% over typicalgood · Japan · Reverb · confirmed 1 h ago
- €9,76851% over typicalnew ·
Netherlands · Reverb · confirmed 1 h ago
40 more · €9,774–€25,133 · Japan, United States, France, Italy and 4 more
- €9,77452% over typicalnew · United States · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago
- €9,78052% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €9,91154% over typicalexcellent ·
Italy · Reverb · confirmed 2 h ago - €10,14557% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €10,23059% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €10,42762% over typicalvery good ·
France · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago - €10,56864% over typicalvery good · Japan · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago
- €10,59064% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €10,59764% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days ago
- €10,66865% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days ago
- €10,88569% over typicalmint · Japan · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago
- €11,10872% over typicalexcellent · United States · Reverb · confirmed 40 h ago
- €11,46378% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €11,57679% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €11,61380% over typicalexcellent ·
Sweden · Reverb · confirmed 40 h agocheck this is the same guitar - €11,71082% over typicalvery good ·
Australia · Reverb · confirmed 40 h agocheck this is the same guitar - €11,79183% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €11,97486% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €12,14188% over typicalgood · Japan · Reverb · confirmed 40 h agocheck this is the same guitar
- €12,20889% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €12,49094% over typicalgood · United States · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €12,77298% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €12,82999% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €12,84799% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 21 h agocheck this is the same guitar
- €12,893100% over typicalexcellent · Netherlands · Reverb · confirmed 40 h agocheck this is the same guitar
- €13,040102% over typicalexcellent · France · Reverb · confirmed 4 h agocheck this is the same guitar
- €13,101103% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €13,352107% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €13,517110% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €13,522110% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €13,894115% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €14,096119% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €14,489125% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 4 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €16,145150% over typicalvery good · Japan · Reverb · confirmed 40 h agocheck this is the same guitar
- €16,369154% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €16,942163% over typicalexcellent ·
Switzerland · Reverb · confirmed 40 h agocheck this is the same guitar - €17,329169% over typicalexcellent · United States · Reverb · confirmed 40 h agocheck this is the same guitar
- €18,203182% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €20,279214% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
- €25,133290% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days agocheck this is the same guitar
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 114 of them, placed by the day the ad went up. The line follows the middle of the sales around each point, with the middle half behind it, and breaks wherever nothing sold nearby. Condition is mixed, so some of the spread is a mint against a fair rather than the market moving.
Recent sales by listing date
12 used sales · last 24 months · middle half €5,100–€7,500 · thin
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 28 Sept 2026 | €10,690$11,999 as sold | new | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Jun 2026 | €4,982$5,800 as sold | good |  South Korea | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Jun 2026 | €4,637$5,399 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 31 Jan 2026 | €6,884$8,000 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Nov 2025 | €6,012$7,000 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and September 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Show the last 50 of 114 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 23 May 2026 | €4,895$5,699 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Nov 2025 | €9,443$10,995 as sold | excellent |  Canada | Reverb | Details |
| 13 Oct 2025 | €5,153$6,000 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Sept 2025 | €6,884$8,000 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Aug 2025 | €5,589$6,495 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Aug 2025 | €8,137$9,474 as sold | excellent | Italy | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Jun 2025 | €7,300$8,499 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Feb 2025 | €12,797$14,900 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Oct 2024 | €21,472$25,000 as sold | fair | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 7 Oct 2024 | €6,012$7,000 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 29 Aug 2024 | €6,555$7,599 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Aug 2024 | €6,870$7,999 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Jul 2024 | €5,497$6,400 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Jun 2024 | €6,441$7,499 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 25 May 2024 | €9,389$10,932 as sold | mint |  Denmark | Reverb | Details |
| 19 May 2024 | €2,578$3,002 as sold | excellent | Sweden | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Feb 2024 | €6,871$8,000 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Jan 2024 | €5,325$6,200 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Nov 2023 | €8,588$9,999 as sold | very good | Canada | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Oct 2023 | €7,301$8,500 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Sept 2023 | €7,468$8,695 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Jul 2023 | €5,411$6,300 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Jun 2023 | €6,008$6,995 as sold | fair | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Jun 2023 | €12,882$14,999 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 30 May 2023 | €5,153$6,000 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 May 2023 | €9,443$10,995 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 17 May 2023 | €6,871$8,000 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 9 May 2023 | €6,957$8,100 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 27 Feb 2023 | €8,190$9,536 as sold | very good | Netherlands | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Feb 2023 | €6,008$6,995 as sold | parts | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Feb 2023 | €6,871$8,000 as sold | mint | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Feb 2023 | €7,301$8,500 as sold | mint | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Dec 2022 | €5,850$6,799 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Nov 2022 | €6,012$7,000 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Jun 2022 | €7,729$8,999 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 16 May 2022 | €5,755$6,700 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Feb 2022 | €9,447$10,999 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Feb 2022 | €6,953$8,096 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Feb 2022 | €6,871$8,000 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Jan 2022 | €7,729$8,999 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Jan 2022 | €6,184$7,200 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Oct 2021 | €7,314$8,495 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Oct 2021 | €8,588$9,999 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Sept 2021 | €5,324$6,199 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Aug 2021 | €9,471$11,000 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and September 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Cheapest live: United States €6,665 · Italy €8,293 · Japan €8,519 · Netherlands €9,768 · before shipping
In one paragraph
The page's figures as one paragraph, assembled for quoting; not written by hand.
Sellers are asking a median of €11,286 for the Gibson L-5 CES today, 75% over the €6,450 it actually sells for (12 recorded sales, last 24 months; most sold between €5,100 and €7,500). There are 56 listings live right now across Reverb, eBay United States, eBay Germany, from €6,665 asking. Figures computed 18 October 2026 by Doirado from cross-platform listing data.
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