Titanic deck or steamer chairs are one the rarest types of Titanic collectable.
Auctioneers Henry Aldridge said they will auctioning the Nantucket Titanic Deck Chair on April 18th, one of only a handful of fully provenanced and documented examples in existence.
Collecting authentic Titanic memorabilia have become a massive craze globally.
Recently, a violin played by Titanic bandmaster Wallace Hartley on board the ill-fated liner sold for a whopping £1.1 million. The instrument, which was discovered in 2006, was played by second-class passenger Wallace Hartley on Titanic's fateful night of April 14th, 1912.
A letter written on board the Titanic and dated the day it struck the iceberg in 1912 - eight hours before the collision was also auctioned recently. Survivor Esther Hart wrote the letter to her mother in East London, but it was never sent. Hart had found the letter in her husband Benjamin's pocket after she and her seven-year-old daughter, Eva, were rescued. Benjamin was one of more than 1,500 people who perished in the tragedy.
Although the Titanic sank over 102 years ago, demand for memorabilia from her shows little sign of abating.
The chairs were owned originally by Julien Lemarteleur, a French cable ship captain working in Halifax at the time of the disaster, who stated to his friend, Captain N Robin Lee to whom he later gave the chair that it had come from the deck of Titanic.
The auctioneers checked with the log book and confirmed that the crew not only picked up deck chairs but that the ships carpenter spent time repairing some of them. The chairs are in fragile condition and can't be sat on.
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