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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Antiques, once the passion of little old ladies who could hold forth for hours on the finer points of greatgrandmother’s bureau, have become the wise man’s hedge against inflation.
Antique shops are no longer the special province of the wealthy searching for that perfect piece to finish out a corner in a formal living room. As inflation becomes more and more the robber that banks can’t build a security system to foil, more and more families with a few dollars left over from the monthly grocery bill are putting their savings into furniture.
’’Antiques give you the biggest bang for your dollar," maintained Emmett White, Rappahannock antique dealer, appraiser and selfdescribed ’’pseudo antiquarian” who recently opened a shop in Washington’s Ice House.
"For the last five to seven years. all the major periodicals, everything from Ladies Home Journal to Newsweek, have had numerous articles telling Mrs. Housewife and Mr. Businessman to invest in antiques. But nobody believed it until the last year when the auctions went bloody crazy,” according to White.
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