The deck chair, a Nantucket recliner, was perched on the first-class deck as the doomed ship sank into the freezing waters of the Atlantic.
Auctioneer Andrew Aldridge calls it, “one of the rarest types of Titanic collectible."
The BBC reports the chair could bring as much as $115,000 despite it being too fragile to sit in.
Aldridge's auctioneers in Devizes, Wiltshire, England says the artifact was recovered by crew members of the Mackay-Bennett, a ship sent to pluck bodies out of the water.
Aldridge confirmed the chair comes with "extensive paperwork" to prove its authenticity.
Close to 1,500 people died when the ship sank after hitting an iceberg as it crossed from Southampton to New York.
The auction will take place April 18.
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