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Our 1,550th Milestone auction is open!

Mar 1, 2026 | All Nations Stamp and Coin, Highlights, News Media

View and bid online here Consisting of 200 Lots of PREMIUM material including – A stunning...

Congratulations to Firmin Wyndels

Feb 20, 2026 | All Nations Stamp and Coin, News Media

Congratulations to Firmin Wyndels on his first auction as the new owner of All Nations Stamp and...

2007 at All Nations and The Bay

Jun 21, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

In 2007 Vancouver 2010 Olympic coin program began. The Bay and the Mint were Olympic sponsors but I was not an authorized Olympic coin dealer. Even though Vanoc workers were buying Vancouver 2010 coins from us, the Olympic brand demanded we stop selling Vancouver 2010, and all other Olympic coins. As a longtime Mint coin seller and Bay associate, I kicked up a fuss, then complied since our lawyer clients advised the Olympics would break me

2006 at the Bay and All Nations

Jun 13, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

Memories from 40 years in the stamp and coin businessby Brian Grant Duff 2006 at the Bay and...

2005 at the Bay and All Nations

Jun 6, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

Memories from 40 years in the stamp and coin businessby Brian Grant Duff 2005 at the Bay and All...

2004 at the Bay and All Nations

May 31, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin, Highlights, News Media

Memories from 40 years in the stamp and coin business by Brian Grant Duff When watch repair moved,...

2003 at All Nations and the Bay

May 23, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

Memories from 40 years in the stamp and coin businessby Brian Grant Duff 2003 at All Nations and...

2002 at All Nations and the Bay Coin and Stamp department

May 17, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

Memories from 40 years in the stamp and coin businessby Brian Grant Duff 2002 at All Nations and...

2001 at All Nations and the Bay Coin and Stamp department

May 10, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

Memories from 40 years in the stamp and coin businessby Brian Grant Duff 2001 at All Nations and...

1998: Memories of Eaton’s stamp and coin department Vancouver

May 3, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

1998: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation actually paid me to do a series of early morning radio broadcasts about the federal government threatening to remove the Queen from Canada’s stamps.

1997: Eaton’s coin and stamp department Vancouver

Apr 14, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

1997: Eaton’s Coin and Stamp department Vancouver
Helped Dan clear out his storage in the basement of the Georgian Club, once a bank. The bulk of items stored there were Leonard Frank postcards and Royal Hudson Train cinderella stamps, which are 50 years old this year.

2000: All Nations and The Bay Coin and Stamp Department

Apr 5, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

Memories from 40 years in the stamp and coin businessby Brian Grant Duff All Nations and The Bay...

1996: Eaton’s coin and stamp department

Apr 4, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

1996: Eaton’s coin and stamp department
Eaton’s started moving the department around. Everytime we changed locations we lost a third of our clients. The Bank of Canada issued the last two dollar banknote. The last two dollar bill and first $2 coin were popular with collectors.

1999 at Eaton’s and All Nations

Mar 29, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

Memories from 40 years in the stamp and coin businessby Brian Grant Duff 1999 at Eaton’s and...

1995: Eaton’s coin and stamp department

Mar 28, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

1995:We hired Tracey Bell to impersonate Marilyn Monroe promoting the U.S. Marilyn stamp. Didn’t sell like Elvis but I still see popular culture issues as a way to introduce people to our hobbies.

1994: Eaton’s coin and stamp department

Mar 20, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

1984: Eaton’s got a postage stamp marking their 125th anniversary. There are two different types of plastic packaging around the booklets.

1993: Elvis at Eaton’s

Mar 15, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

Dan was at PHILEX in Toronto when the U.S. Elvis stamp was released and managed to secure some for sale at our Eaton’s stamp and coin department. Most news media covered the sale and people were lined up for two weeks to buy sheets, blocks, t-shirts, and first day covers of the 29c Elvis stamps.

1992: Canada 125 coins at Eaton’s

Mar 10, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

To mark Canada’s 125th birthday, the Mint issued 25c coins showing scenes from the provinces and territories, plus a commemorative aureate Dollar. The circulating versions were popular with collectors and the public and introduced new collectors to the hobby.

Our 1,450th auction of stamp and coin rare and scarce is live

Mar 9, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin, News Media

All Nations’ milestone 1450th auction is Saturday 16 March closing at 130pm. View and bid in...

1991: The impact of GST

Mar 1, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

The GST began and impacted store visits and purchases. We started bid board style auctions to offset the losses. We also stopped handling antiquities as border crossing became more difficult. A cruise ship visitors shuttle to Eaton’s helped.

1990: Began operating Eaton’s Stamp and Coin department

Feb 23, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

We had drinks with George Holschauer and Bill Simpson, among my ancestor’s uniforms, at the Imperial War Museum. I stood next to Fred Eaton as he acquired the largest known multiple of Canada’s Seaway Invert stamp, at the Christie’s auction, for Ron Brigham.

1989: Return to Vancouver

Feb 16, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

Macdonald’s invited me to their Toronto headquarters to discuss commemorative covers from the 1988 Soviet-Canadian Polar Bridge Expedition with a Russian delegation. It was an important meeting as Macdonald’s was expanding into Russia at the time. I was paid in Big Mac and Taxi passes.

1988: Detroit, Montreal, Virginia Beach, Wellburn auction

Feb 11, 2024 | All Nations Stamp and Coin

I wrote the stamp column for the Canadian Antiquer and Collector. Show visits included a train trip to Montreal and an earthquake during the show at Place Bonaventure, where the lights went out and we all lay across our displays in the dark, sheepishly rising when the lights returned.