The Lerebours Gaudin Daguerreotype camera is a mid-19th-century French wooden plate camera built for the daguerreotype process, the earliest commercially successful photographic medium introduced in 1839. As an apparatus from the formative years of photography, it sat in the specialist market for daguerreotypists rather than the consumer space that emerged decades later.

Sales data for this apparatus is extremely thin: a single recorded UK auction hammer result from 2002 stands at £11,162, which gives a benchmark for what a Lerebours Gaudin daguerreotype camera sells for at saleroom level rather than a reliable current value in 2026. With only one wholesale data point and no recent comparables, today's price would depend heavily on completeness, provenance and whether period plate holders or lenses survive with the body.