Please refer to the Products heading (from menu above) which includes links to items for sale.
Value and authentication
As with other antiques, the value of Orivit items varies considerably with their condition, beauty, rarity and the inclinations of the collector.
Find a general discussion of the value of antiques at the Antiques Roadshow.
Occasionally Orivit pieces may be seen that are evidently unmarked (or through having been polished over
the years have lost a legible mark). In general, however, great caution should be exercised when buying items
attributed to Orivit without appropriate documentation as there are occasionally unmarked, falsely attributed items on Ebay.
Ebay ... please check under the Products heading for links to current and past ebay auctions of note!
Antique dealers
The site Collect 1900 provides this list of European art nouveau dealers as well as related auctions.
Various metalwork objects mostly from the arts and crafts movement can be found for sale by
Craft Nouveau of the UK here.
A very fine selection of jugendstil and art deco items including metalwork, ceramics, glass and furniture may be found at
Schürenberg Kunsthandel GbR, Aachen Germany.
Many fine art nouveau pewter items including Orivit, Liberty, WMF and others can be found at the
Style Gallery, London England.
Several later Orivit pieces as well as other art nouveau silver and silver plate can be found at Pasarel, Netanya Israel.
A variety of art nouveau and art deco antiques can be found at
Titus Omega, Islington, England.
Tadema Gallery, London purveyors of fine antique jewelry including many fine Jugendstil and art nouveau pieces. No Orivit
pieces are to be found here but certainly worth a visit for those interested in art nouveau.
Auction Houses
Quittenbaum, Munich runs auctions of fine jugendstil/art nouveau items twice a year.
Von-Zezschwitz auction house, Germany, runs twice yearly art nouveau/jugendstil auctions and produces beautiful catalogs.
Be aware of reproductions!
Zinnwaren . There are also reproductions of multiple Kayserzinn and WMF pieces at this site.
Senses of Brussels sells some lovely reproductions of art nouveau/ jugendstil metalwork pieces
including the 2124.
Sending payment online.
I have found that sending and receiving money online is much easier when both the buyer and seller use Paypal. This is especially true with international
transactions where buyers can find arranging for wire transfers or international bank checks frustrating.
If you haven't done so already I strongly suggest signing up for Paypal.
Contact
I would be thrilled to correspond with others interested in Orivit and/or other art nouveau and jugendstil firms.
Although I had previously attempted to set up a discussion group on Yahoo the volume of irrelevant information
from online sales campaigns as well as the cumbersome mechanism for maintaining Yahoo groups proved too burdensome.
I will try again but in the meantime please feel free to introduce yourself by emailing:
I would especially appreciate receiving photos of your own Orivit items to include in the Products list. I am also very interested
in finding original copies of the Orivit catalogues.
