A Lerebours et Secretan Daguerreotype lens£280
23 Oct 2024 · Chiswick Auctions · lot 10 · Photographicapremium removed
Lerebours Daguerreotype
camera
The Lerebours Daguerreotype has 2 recorded sales: £280 (23 Oct 2024, Chiswick Auctions) and £838 (6 Nov 2004, Leitz Photographica Auction). That is too few for a typical price.
Recorded sales
Only 2 sales — too few for a typical price, so here they are.
Lerebours & Secretan Daguerreotype lens£838
6 Nov 2004 · Leitz Photographica Auction · €1,200 · lot AI_6_24000hammer ↗
Sales only
Hammer prices, buyer’s premium removed; eBay as soldHow ↗
What it is
{"overview":"The Lerebours Daguerreotype is a 19th-century wooden plate camera made for the daguerreotype process, the first commercially successful photographic system introduced in 1839.
Generated summary, 25 Apr 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.
Questions
How much does a Lerebours Daguerreotype sell for at auction?
Recent evidence suggests a clean but unexceptional example can sell for a few hundred pounds at hammer, while historically documented or complete outfits have achieved four-figure prices.
Why does the price vary so much?
Daguerreotype-era cameras are valued on originality of the wooden body, brass lens and plate holders, plus provenance — small differences in completeness can shift the price by an order of magnitude.
Facts
- Maker
- Lerebours
- Type
- camera
- Sales in the typical price
- 2
- First sale
- 6 Nov 2004
- Latest sale
- 23 Oct 2024
- Evidence
- Sales only
- Method
- v1
Cite this page
“Lerebours Daguerreotype: 2 recorded sales, 2004–2024; no typical price (method v1).” cameraworth.com, retrieved 8 October 2026. https://www.cameraworth.com/l/lerebours/daguerreotype/