Recovered Titanic Deck Chair

This is one of only seven fully intact Titanic deck chairs known to exist today.

This chair bears the scars of damage suffered that fateful night, as well as evidence of cable ship repairs performed in order to make it usable once more; likely ending up in a crewman's garden or patio as a poignant reminder of a job out of the ordinary.

Absent the star logo on the headboard, this chair represents one out of a small run of chairs manufactured specifically for Titanic by R. Holman & Co., of Boston. The missing star is thought attributable to the fact that the boutique American manufacturer was not provided with the specialized jig used to incise the headboard, as their contract with the White Star Line was an emergency one-off order executed to quickly fill a shortfall of stock. In a now famous photograph taken of passengers strolling Titanic's boat deck shortly after her arrival at Queenstown, an R. Holman & Co. deck chair, sans star, can be clearly made out amongst several stacked deck chairs.