Deck Chair Wreckage

This extraordinarily rare artifact is a seat slat, with attached cane, that was removed from a badly damaged Titanic deck chair. During the sinking many first class deck chairs were thrown overboard for use as crude flotation devices. The chair from which this piece was removed was once owned by James Adams, First Officer of the Western Union cable ship C.S. Minia; one of the ships tasked with body recovery in the days immediately following the disaster.

Beech, cane