Tailboard camera£80
9 Sep 2003 · Christie's · lot 383premium removed ↗
+ lens
Gilles-faller Tailboard
camera
The Gilles-faller Tailboard has 1 recorded sale: £80 (9 Sep 2003, Christie's). That is too few for a typical price.
Recorded sales
Only 1 sale — too few for a typical price, so here it is.
Sales onlyold
Hammer prices, buyer’s premium removed; eBay as soldHow ↗
What it is
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Generated summary, 12 May 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.
Questions
What type of camera is the Gilles-Faller Tailboard?
It is a tailboard-pattern wooden plate camera, a folding view-camera design used in the late 1800s for glass-plate photography.
Facts
- Maker
- Gilles-faller
- Type
- camera
- Sales in the typical price
- 1
- First sale
- 9 Sep 2003
- Latest sale
- 9 Sep 2003
- Evidence
- Sales only · old
- Method
- v1
Cite this page
“Gilles-faller Tailboard: 1 recorded sale, September 2003; no typical price (method v1).” cameraworth.com, retrieved 8 October 2026. https://www.cameraworth.com/g/gilles-faller/tailboard/