Nouvel Appareil Gaudin daguerreotype camera£9,500
10 May 2002 · Christie's · lot 273premium removed ↗
Lerebours Gaudin Daguerreotypecamera
camera
The Lerebours Gaudin Daguerreotypecamera has 1 recorded sale: £9,500 (10 May 2002, Christie's). That is too few for a typical price.
Recorded sales
Only 1 sale — too few for a typical price, so here it is.
Sales onlyold
Hammer prices, buyer’s premium removed; eBay as soldHow ↗
What it is
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Generated summary, 28 Apr 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.
Other Gaudins
Questions
Why is the price so high compared with later cameras?
It dates from the earliest era of photography and survives in very small numbers, so collector demand for early daguerreotype apparatus pushes values far above those of later mass-produced cameras.
Facts
- Maker
- Lerebours
- Type
- camera
- Sales in the typical price
- 1
- First sale
- 10 May 2002
- Latest sale
- 10 May 2002
- Evidence
- Sales only · old
- Method
- v1
Cite this page
“Lerebours Gaudin Daguerreotypecamera: 1 recorded sale, May 2002; no typical price (method v1).” cameraworth.com, retrieved 8 October 2026. https://www.cameraworth.com/l/lerebours/gaudin-daguerreotypecamera/