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. As a tailboard pattern, it folds flat for transport and uses a hinged baseboard that drops down to support extension for focusing.

Auction data for the Mendoza Tailboard is extremely thin: a single recorded UK saleroom result from Christie's hammered at £211, which is the only reference point available for what this camera is worth today. With just one hammer price on file, any sense of a true price range or median is unreliable, and current value will depend heavily on completeness, condition of the bellows and woodwork, and whether period lenses or plate holders are included.