The Houghton Ticka, Focal plane model is a British-made subminiature camera in the Ticka family, distinguished by its focal-plane shutter rather than the simpler shutter found on the standard Ticka. It is an early twentieth-century pocket camera designed to be carried discreetly, and surviving examples are now collector items rather than working tools.

With only a single recorded UK auction result in our data — a hammer price of £3,700 in November 2006 — the focal-plane Ticka sits well above the standard Ticka in value, but today's price is hard to pin down from one data point. As of 2026, what a Houghton Ticka focal plane model is worth at saleroom level depends heavily on completeness, condition and provenance, and a fresh appearance could sell for materially more or less than that historic figure. Buyers researching what one of these sells for should treat the £3,700 hammer as a single reference point rather than a reliable median.