Collector snaps up fragile wooden deckchair which was on Titanic for more than £100,000

 
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Tom Marshall18 April 2015

A deckchair which was on the Titanic when it sank has been sold for more than £100,000.

The wooden chair was found bobbing in the Atlantic after the luxury liner hit an iceberg and sank on its maiden voyage in 1912.

It has been in the hands of an English Titanic collector for 15 years and is said to be too fragile to sit on.

The chair fetched just over £100,000 at an auction in Wiltshire today, smashing the estimate of £70,000 to £80,000.

It was bought by an unnamed UK-based collector who has a passion for buying pieces of historic importance, auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said.

Mr Aldridge, from Devizes auction house Henry Aldridge and Son, said he was "very very pleased" with the price.

He described the chair, which was salvaged from the ocean by a team sent to recover bodies after the Titanic sank, as "one the rarest types of Titanic collectable".

Around 1,500 people perished when the Titanic sank during its ill-fated voyage to New York from Southampton on April 14 1912.

Sx or seven deckchairs were picked up and taken back to port in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

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