Sands & Hunter's 'Patent Camera'£202
18 Nov 2006 · Leitz Photographica Auction · €300 · lot AI_10_15677hammer ↗
+ lens
Sands & Hunter Patent Camera
camera
The Sands & Hunter Patent Camera has 1 recorded sale: £202 (18 Nov 2006, 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 Sands & Hunter Patent Camera is a British-made plate camera from the late 19th-century London trade, sold under the Sands & Hunter name during the wet- and dry-plate era. With no recent comparables, what a Sands & Hunter Patent Camera is worth today depends heavily on completeness, condition of the bellows and woodwork, and whether period plate holders or a lens are included. Look closely at the wooden body for cracks, missing brass fittings, worn rack-and-pinion focusing, and at the ground glass for chips; original plate holders and a period lens add value but are often missing or mismatched.
Generated summary, 29 Apr 2026 — not checked by hand; prices on this page come from the sales, not from this text.
Questions
Is the Sands & Hunter Patent Camera a usable camera?
It is a 19th-century plate camera, so practical use today requires sourcing or adapting plate holders and accepting that bellows and woodwork on surviving examples are often fragile.
Facts
- Maker
- Sands & Hunter
- Type
- camera
- Sales in the typical price
- 1
- First sale
- 18 Nov 2006
- Latest sale
- 18 Nov 2006
- Evidence
- Sales only · old
- Method
- v1
Cite this page
“Sands & Hunter Patent Camera: 1 recorded sale, November 2006; no typical price (method v1).” cameraworth.com, retrieved 8 October 2026. https://www.cameraworth.com/s/sands-hunter/patent-camera/