A HUMBLE wooden deckchair recovered from the doomed Titanic has sold for £100,350 (US$150,805) at auction.

    The Nantucket wooden chair, which once sat on a first-class promenade of the ill-fated ship, was salvaged by a search team from the Atlantic Ocean after the Titanic sank in 1912.

    Dubbed “one of the rarest types of Titanic collectable,” the chair is too fragile to sit on, but has been carefully preserved, having been owned by a British collector for the past 15 years.

    The ship’s log records six or seven deckchairs being picked up and taken back to port in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

    One was given by a crew member to Captain Julien Lemarteleur, who had previously worked on board the Mackay-Bennett.

    The anonymous seller kept it by a large window overlooking the sea at his home on the south coast, never sat on it due to its fragile state and instead used it as a display item.

    It was sold Friday at Henry Aldridge and Son auction house in Devizes, Wiltshire, to a U.K. buyer.

    The chair is made of teak wood and has an adjustable footrest at the front.

    It has a five pointed star on top of it, which was the emblem of White Star Line — the company that owned the Titanic.

    (SD-Agencies)

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