FRANZÖSISCHE BOX Kamera£6,705
15 Nov 2002 · Leitz Photographica Auction · €10,525 · lot AI_1_21117hammer ↗
◆ ? title doesn’t name the Joues+ lens
Mendel Chambre a Joues
camera
The Mendel Chambre a Joues has 1 recorded sale: £6,705 (15 Nov 2002, Leitz Photographica Auction). 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
{"overview":"The Mendel Chambre à Joues is a wooden plate camera, a body style associated with late 19th and early 20th century French photographic equipment. Today, in 2026, anyone wanting to know what a Mendel Chambre à Joues is worth should treat this lone data point as indicative only, since condition, completeness and competing bidders on the day will dictate what the next example sells for.","buying_guide":"On any wooden plate camera of this age, inspect the bellows for pinholes and corner wear, check the wood for shrinkage cracks and missing veneer, and confirm the ground glass and any plate holders are present and uncracked.
Generated summary, 29 Apr 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.
Questions
Why is the price so high compared with ordinary plate cameras?
Rarity and collector demand drive the value — examples almost never appear, so when one does surface, competitive bidding among specialist collectors sets the price well above that of common wooden plate cameras.
Facts
- Maker
- Mendel
- Type
- camera
- Sales in the typical price
- 1
- First sale
- 15 Nov 2002
- Latest sale
- 15 Nov 2002
- Evidence
- Sales only · old
- Method
- v1
Cite this page
“Mendel Chambre a Joues: 1 recorded sale, November 2002; no typical price (method v1).” cameraworth.com, retrieved 8 October 2026. https://www.cameraworth.com/m/mendel/chambre-a-joues/