P.F. Waage (goldsmith)
P.F. Waage is a goldsmith business in Ulsteinvik with its own workshop. Its services include commissioned pieces, repairs and remodelling older gold. The workshop presentation shows rings and pendants and describes hammering, rolling, soldering and polishing.
This documented workshop activity makes the name useful when researching Norwegian jewellery. In-house work must nevertheless be distinguished from goods retailed for other suppliers. The shop's work with Norwegian traditional dress silver does not establish that every such piece purchased there was made in its workshop.
For pre-owned jewellery, retain the original receipt, commission details and photographs with the object. Establish whether a record concerns manufacture, repair or subsequent remodelling. The shop name alone cannot identify an unknown mark, and examples in its present gallery do not date other jewellery of similar appearance.
