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Titanic deck chair reportedly taken before ship sailed fails to sell at auction
Updated: 3:19 p.m. ET May 8, 2006
BROOKLINE, Mass. - There was no winning bid in an auction Sunday for a worn beechwood recliner reportedly snatched from the Titanic as a souvenir before the ship left, a British-based auction house said.
The bidding topped out at $62,000, short of a confidential sale threshold set by its anonymous seller, said Josephine Olley, a spokeswoman for Bonhams & Butterfields. Bonhams will now try to sell the chair privately.
The deck chair, with a fold-out footrest, was one of more than 2,500 lots on the block this weekend at a collectibles auction.
Titanic deck chair reportedly taken before ship sailed fails to sell at auction
Updated: 3:19 p.m. ET May 8, 2006
BROOKLINE, Mass. - There was no winning bid in an auction Sunday for a worn beechwood recliner reportedly snatched from the Titanic as a souvenir before the ship left, a British-based auction house said.
The bidding topped out at $62,000, short of a confidential sale threshold set by its anonymous seller, said Josephine Olley, a spokeswoman for Bonhams & Butterfields. Bonhams will now try to sell the chair privately.
The deck chair, with a fold-out footrest, was one of more than 2,500 lots on the block this weekend at a collectibles auction.