Tokai TTE-50
guitar
Not enough sold data for a typical price — 8 sales on record all-time.
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Not enough sold data for a typical price. 1 for sale, from €1,327.
About the Tokai TTE-50
The TTE-50 is the 50-grade Breezysound Telecaster of 1984 to 1986, the Goldstar-era successor to the TE-50: an ashtray-type bridge (six-saddle on the earlier ones), machine-wound U-stamped pickups, and on the 1986 fifties reissue no neck-plate serial at all, a cost saving on the 50 grade, where the 60 and up kept serial plates, but a gold Made in Japan sticker instead. The name lives on in modern Japanese production: a TTE-50 of 2013 is a 62-style slab-rosewood-board model with flat-top knobs and no brass saddles, with the truss rod adjusted at the heel on the export TTE where the Japan-market ATE adjusts at the headstock; importers can choose headstock shape and even model number when ordering, so recent reissues do not appear in any catalogue. Owners date theirs to 1984 and 1986, with modern examples from 2013.
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 United StatesPrice history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 8 of them, placed by the day the ad went up. Too few sales to draw a trend through them without inventing one, so the points speak for themselves. Condition is mixed, so some of the spread is a mint against a fair rather than the market moving.
Recent sales by listing date
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Apr 2026 | €911$1,056 as sold | good |  United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Apr 2024 | €706$792 as sold | new |   Estonia | Reverb | Details |
| 27 Jan 2023 | €1,208$1,400 as sold | excellent |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 9 Aug 2021 | €607$680 as sold | very good |  Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Jun 2021 | €676$759 as sold | new | Estonia | 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 Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in September 2026 and October 2026.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.
Show all 8 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 Jun 2018 | €631$709 as sold | new | Estonia | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Apr 2018 | €728$817 as sold | new | Estonia | Reverb | Details |
| 31 Oct 2015 | €522$605 as sold | 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 September 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Cheapest live: Japan €1,327 · before shipping
8 recorded sales of the Tokai TTE-50, too few to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €1,327 before shipping. Figures computed 18 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 6 discussion threads among 9 owners, 2022-2024. No names, nothing quoted.
A modern TTE-50 picked up unplayed cleaned up a treat and left its buyer blown away by how good it is; a 1984 is called lovely by the owner who bought it to restore, and a shop-find 1986 sounded and played well enough to be bought on the spot despite a six-saddle bridge that gave a sitar buzz on some strings.