Lancaster Rover

{"overview":"The Lancaster Rover is a vintage British-made plate camera produced by J. Lancaster & Son of Birmingham, a maker active in the late 19th and early Edwardian period. Buyers should treat these saleroom hammer figures as wholesale benchmarks: what a Rover is worth at auction in 2026 depends heavily on completeness, condition of the bellows and woodwork, and whether the original lens and shutter are present, with clean complete examples sitting at the top of that range.","buying_guide":"Inspect the bellows for pinholes and corner splits, check the wooden body for shrinkage, cracks and loose joints, and verify that the ground glass, plate holders and any original lens or shutter are present and matched to the camera.

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