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12d Black Sale Brokered

All Nations and Canada Stamp Finder brokered the sale of the finest of two known pairs of the 170 year old 12d Black, for $165,000 in August 2021. This pair is illustrated in Howes' Canada handbook and has previously graced the Pack, Adler, Jephcott, Leggett, Hillmer,...

Canadian Stamp News report on our Milestone 1300th Auction

CSN article: All Nations marks 1,300 auctions “Thirteen-hundred auctions is 26 years of weekly sales,” said All Nations owner and auctioneer Brian Grant Duff. “Vancouver used to have four different bidboard auctions on...

Global News BC > The Old Hastings Mill Store’ in financial jeopardy

The Old Hastings Mill Store’ in financial jeopardy A museum – house in Vancouver’s oldest building – is in financial jeopardy.’The Old Hastings Mill Store’ survived the Great Fire of 1886 but the pandemic could force its closure. And as Jordan Armstrong reports at a...

Online auction only today – no live auction at store

The radio replaces the live floor at today's auction. For the first time in 1255 sales, there is no live bidding. Stay safe to bid live again. Online only and by phone bidding for the foreseeable future. Thanks for your support and friendship. auctions #onlineauctions...

News: The Mayfair Find – Rare colonial B.C. stamps come home for auction

John Mackie writes in the Vancouver Sun. In the early 1860s, a young man wrote to postmasters around the world, enclosing money for sheets of stamps to be sent to his home in Mayfair in London. So they did. Now eight of the “Mayfair find” stamps have come home to B.C. in the Feb. 29 All Nations Stamp and Coin auction.

News: 1865 ledger from Hastings Mill, John Mackie article in Vancouver Sun

Most people think Vancouver started in Gastown. But the early city actually sprang up a few blocks east, at the foot of Dunlevy Avenue. That was where Capt. Edward Stamp decided to build a lumber mill in 1865. Incredibly, Stamp’s accounting ledger for the mill still...

Terry Fox for the new $5 #foxforfiver

A push to get Canadian icon Terry Fox on the new five dollar bill is quickly picking up steam. David Zura reports on City TV https://www.citynews1130.com/video/2020/01/12/foxforfiver-picking-up-steam/ Brian Grant Duff is on the City TV appreciation of the campaign to...

Early Kitsilano property documents with links to Sam Greer found in box of books

John Mackie has written an article in the Vancouver Sun covering the property documents with links to Sam Greer and now in All Nations weekly auctions (see Lot 99 Auction 1222 Saturday 10th August 2019) "Early Kitsilano property documents emerge from yard sale. Three...

Sam Greer, Kitsilano

Sam Greer All Nations Stamp and Coin have sold material from Sam Greer's estate including his handwritten sketches of Greer's beach, legal documents, letters and more. For more background to Sam Greer's story see the Monte Cristo magazine long read The Hidden History...

Royal Baby, Royal Collectibles on Breakfast Television

Royal Collectibles BT May 9, 2019 What’s in a name? We delve into the history of the name Archie after the newest member of the Royal Family is named plus we look at royal baby memorabilia through the ages. Breakfast Television interview with Brian Grant DuffPlay...