Empress field camera£120
11 Mar 2003 · Christie's · lot 317premium removed ↗
+ lens
Houghton Empress
camera
The Houghton Empress has 1 recorded sale: £120 (11 Mar 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, 4 May 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.
Questions
Is the Houghton Empress a collectible camera?
As a product of an early British maker it has collector interest, but with very limited sales history the market price is hard to pin down.
Facts
- Maker
- Houghton
- Type
- camera
- Sales in the typical price
- 1
- First sale
- 11 Mar 2003
- Latest sale
- 11 Mar 2003
- Evidence
- Sales only · old
- Method
- v1
Cite this page
“Houghton Empress: 1 recorded sale, March 2003; no typical price (method v1).” cameraworth.com, retrieved 8 October 2026. https://www.cameraworth.com/h/houghton/empress/