The Houghton Tailboard Camera is a wooden folding plate camera of the type made in Britain in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a hinged rear baseboard that drops down to allow the bellows and lens standard to extend forward. It was a general-purpose stand camera intended for studio and field use with glass plate negatives.

Sales evidence for this model is thin: a single recorded UK auction hammer result of £253 from 1999 sits in the reference data, so a current 2026 market range cannot be reliably stated. As an indicator of what one of these cameras has sold for at saleroom level, that figure remains the only firm price point, and condition of the woodwork, bellows and brass fittings would heavily influence what a comparable example is worth today.