The Wood wet plate camera is a 19th-century large-format apparatus built around the wet collodion process, in which a glass plate is sensitised, exposed, and developed while still wet. Cameras of this construction were typically made of timber with brass fittings and used for studio or field portraiture before the dry plate took over in the 1880s.

Sales evidence for this listing is thin: a single Christie's hammer result of £2,070 from January 2000 is the only data point, so the figure reflects a UK auction sale rather than a retail or dealer asking price. With one record and a quarter-century gap to today in 2026, that number should be treated as historical context rather than a guide to what one is worth now, and condition, completeness of plate holders, and maker attribution will swing any current value considerably.