The Lawley Wet plate camera is a 19th-century wet-collodion plate camera, a large-format wooden field instrument used with hand-coated glass plates exposed and developed while still wet. Cameras of this type were sold for professional and serious amateur photographic use during the wet-plate era.

Auction evidence for the Lawley Wet plate camera is thin: a single UK saleroom hammer result of £900 in November 2025 is the only data point available, so any sense of what one is worth today rests on that lone sale rather than an established range. Condition of the bellows, ground glass and woodwork, along with the presence of original plate holders and a period lens, can swing the price a wet-plate camera sells for considerably either side of that figure.