Tailboard camera£180
23 Nov 2000 · Christie's · lot 284premium removed ↗
+ lens
Mendoza Tailboard
camera
The Mendoza Tailboard has 1 recorded sale: £180 (23 Nov 2000, 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
{"overview":"The Mendoza Tailboard is a wooden tailboard-style plate camera, a design format common in the late 19th and early Edwardian period for studio and outdoor large-format photography.
Generated summary, 29 Apr 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.
Questions
Is the Mendoza Tailboard a usable camera or a collector's piece?
It is a wooden plate camera from the tailboard era, so while mechanically simple examples can still be used with sheet film adapters, most buyers treat it as a display and collector item.
Facts
- Maker
- Mendoza
- Type
- camera
- Sales in the typical price
- 1
- First sale
- 23 Nov 2000
- Latest sale
- 23 Nov 2000
- Evidence
- Sales only · old
- Method
- v1
Cite this page
“Mendoza Tailboard: 1 recorded sale, November 2000; no typical price (method v1).” cameraworth.com, retrieved 8 October 2026. https://www.cameraworth.com/m/mendoza/tailboard/