Tokai TLS-50
guitar
Not enough sold data for a typical price — 5 sales on record all-time.
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Not enough sold data for a typical price. 10 for sale, from €1,005.
About the Tokai TLS-50
The TLS-50 is the 50-grade Love Rock of the Goldstar years, 1984-85, the T-prefixed successor of the LS-50: in 1985 the 50 carried a two-piece plain maple top where the 60 had a flame veneer (a 1982 LS-50 had a three-piece top), with the pre-Gotoh tuners of the decade; one 1985 weighs 9 lb 8 oz with a 1 11/16-inch nut, and identification is muddied by oddballs from that period.
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.
eBay Germany
eBay United States
4 more live · €1,141–€1,338 · typical ask €1,119 · 4 Japan
- €1,141€22 over the typical askgood ·
Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 4 days ago - €1,153€34 over the typical askgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,287€168 over the typical askgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 4 days ago
- €1,338€219 over the typical askgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
Recent sales by listing date
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 29 Aug 2026 | €793$890 as sold | excellent |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 29 Apr 2024 | €992$1,150 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Feb 2022 | €1,103$1,278 as sold | very good |  Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 27 May 2020 | €1,579$1,831 as sold | excellent |  United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Nov 2017 | €505$567 as sold | good | Japan | 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 Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in September 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Cheapest live: Japan €1,005 · before shipping
5 recorded sales of the Tokai TLS-50, too few to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €1,005 before shipping. Figures computed 18 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 3 discussion threads among 8 owners, 2023-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
A TLS 50 is called an incredible guitar; an owner of an identical 1985 calls it fantastic to play and hear, and a new owner of a 1982 LS50 with four Gibsons in the house says it screams and will never leave, not the number one, but far closer than that owner ever expected.