article_snippet.sent: A humble wooden deckchair recovered from the doomed Titanic has sold for £100,350 at auction.
article_snippet.sent: 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 doomed Titanic sank in 1912.
article_snippet.sent: Dubbed 'one of the rarest types of Titanic collectable', Chair is too fragile to sit on, but has been carefully preserved, having been owned by a British collector for the past 15 years.
article_snippet.sent: A 103-year-old deckchair recovered from the wreck of the doomed Titanic is expected sold for £100,000 at auction .
article_snippet.sent: Henry Aldridge and Son auction house in Devizes, Wiltshire, to a UK buyer, described the piece as one of 'the most important [bits] of Titanic memorabilia around'.
article_snippet.sent: Henry Aldridge and Son auction house in Devizes, Wiltshire, to a UK buyer said: 'It is incredibly rare to find something of that size that was on Titanic, was salvaged and that still exists today.
article_snippet.sent: deckchairs has a five pointed star on top of deckchairs, which was the emblem of White Star Line - the company that owned the Titanic .
article_snippet.sent: The chair has a five pointed star on top of The chair, which was the emblem of White Star Line - the company that owned the Titanic.
article_snippet.sent: Sold with The chair was an in depth 'provenance package' that authenticates history and association with Titanic.
article_snippet.sent: I recognise The chair as the same chair I saw in the captain's garage and of which the captain identified as coming from Titanic.'
article_snippet.sent: Craig Sopin, 57, a lawyer from Philadelphia, owns one of the world's largest collections of Titanic memorabilia.
article_snippet.sent: Capt Lemarteleur also authenticated The chair and said: 'The chair isn't often that one has the opportunity to acquire such an important part of Titanic's story. '
article_snippet.sent: Its history can be traced from the auction house back to Titanic .'
highlights_snippet.sent: Chair was on first class deck when ship hit an iceberg in April 1912 .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Found by Mackay-Bennett crew members while clearing up the wreck .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Previously owned by English collector who kept it in sea-view window .