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Now, says White, antiques rank ahead of good art, diamonds and real estate as a profitable investment. “The rate at which they’re growing in value, a buyer can even recover any money lost from a mistake,’’ White maintained.
The mistake angle is critical for anyone learning the ropes, periods, styles and whorls of antiques, as White has discovered from experience. For a beginner, it’s tricky telling the difference between a table made in 1860 and one produced in 1910. Errors can be expensive but they can also be informative. • White got his education in antiques partially from studying books on the subject and primarily from buying and making mistakes.
"There’s no way to learn quicker than by making a financial mistake. It’s real cause for excitement when you make a $500 error,” he chuckled. “Then you study extra hard so you don't make another one of the same kind.”
Emmett White has learned his lessons well. As he rattles off the background on a pair of oils of foxhounds done by English animal painter Albert Duke, he’s an art historian. When he describes a chair signed by Wallace Nutting, preacher, artist and cabinet maker “who wrote the bible on antique
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