ALBUS DUMBLEDORE

Postal History Dealer · Bergen, Norway
albus@example.com +47 555 21 480 doepostal.example.com Strandkaien 14, Bergen
Greetings from Bergen!

I have dealt in Nordic postal history for 16 years, first as an auction cataloguer and since 2016 from my own shop on Strandkaien. I handle roughly 4,000 covers a year and keep a reference library of 900 volumes on rates and routes. My specialty is Norwegian ship mail between 1855 and 1920. I still steam every stamp off the kettle myself, which my accountant finds inefficient.

Vestlandet Series · No. 169 · Printed in Bergen
Post Card · Carte Postale · Brevkort

Owner & Principal Dealer, Dumbledore Postal AS

Bergen · 2016–present
  • Built a stock of 38,000 catalogued covers and cards, with a searchable register I keep by hand and by database.
  • Grew annual turnover from 0.9M to 3.4M NOK across 8 seasons, mostly through 6 fixed-price lists a year.
  • Placed the 1868 Vadsø packet correspondence, 214 covers, with a museum collection after 14 months of provenance work.
PLACE
STAMP
HERE
Bergen · Norge≈≈≈≈2016–20XX
To: The Hiring Committee
Att: Whoever reads CVs
Anywhere with good light
Post Card · Carte Postale · Brevkort

Senior Cataloguer, Nordfrim Auksjoner

Oslo · 2012–2016
  • Wrote lot descriptions for 22 floor auctions, about 1,800 lots each, with a return rate under 0.5%.
  • Attributed and expertised ship-mail markings for 3 major estate consignments totalling 9,100 items.
  • Introduced photo standards for the printed catalogue that cut re-shoots by 40%.
PLACE
STAMP
HERE
Oslo · Norge≈≈≈≈2012–2016
To: Collectors of the North
Care of the auction floor
Row 3, aisle seat
Wish you were here
Hurtigruten Route Card · Coastal Mail Steamer, c. 1908
Post Card · Carte Postale · Brevkort

Assistant, Frimerkehuset Vest

Bergen · 2008–2012
  • Sorted and priced incoming kiloware and albums, roughly 60 boxes a month.
  • Ran the shop's first mail-order list, which reached 340 subscribers by year 3.
PLACE
STAMP
HERE
Bergen · Norge≈≈≈≈2008–2012
To: My younger self
Back room, Frimerkehuset
Mind the tongs

Stamp Rack · Skills & Memberships

ExpertisingShip Mail 1855–1920
Rate & RouteResearch
AuctionCataloguing
ProvenanceDocumentation
NorwegianNative
EnglishFluent
GermanReading
Norsk FilatelistforbundMember since 2009

Schooling · Sent Long Ago

Cand.mag., History
University of Bergen · thesis on coastal mail contracts, 1888–1912
2003–2007
Certificate in Paper Conservation Basics
Vestland Craft Institute, 40-hour course
2014