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Without an image it's really just a guess: It looks like you have a perfin (punctured) security mark by a company with the initials L G (Limited). Perfins were applied by thousands of companies across the British Commonwealth to prevent pilfering of postage stamps by employees, or by postal thieves who would remove stamps in transit for re-use.
It was possible many years ago to take unused stamps back to the post office and obtain a refund.
You won't find company security perfins in any standard catalogue.
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dogtag,
I have always succeeded in finding my Australian or Australian Colony perfins at one of these web-sites:
http://www.perfins.com.au/
and
http://www.philatelicdatabase.com/australia-and-dependencies/perfins-of-new-zealand-and-australia/
good luck!
Dennis
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Too good to be true.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2017-Scott-Worldwide-Stamp-Catalogues-Complete-Set-Volumes-1-Thru-6/172660637676?_trksid=p2054502.c100227.m3827&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908103841%26meid%3Dfa77a25d7e114d16a0fbf68b1c59b46b%26pid%3D100227%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D11%26mehot%3Dlo%26sd%3D332175666292
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Stampcollector. Yes indeed. Zero feedback and free shipping from Hong Kong that would cost more than the asking price of the 6 volume set, might raise a couple flags. Still, I'm wondering if I want to throw away $28 to find out, stranger things might have happened. 
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According to what I read on the item shipping is free. Reckon it would cost more than $28 dollars to ship, even converted to Chinese currency.
Only one left, no other items for sale and only an ebay member since March 21st. good job I have a barge pole.
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But what does a seemingly "too good to be true" Scotts catalog set have to do with a 1932 Australian perfin?
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09:32:38am
" ....You won't find company security
perfins in any standard catalogue....."
Ahh, the danger of absolutes.
While it is far superior to catalogs,
the Complete Deegam Machin Handbook
contains, in one of its appendices,
a complete illustrated ( and identified)
example of every currently known perfin
applied to Machin stamps.
It may not help with Aussie stamps.
But just for the record.
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re: 1932 australian
Without an image it's really just a guess: It looks like you have a perfin (punctured) security mark by a company with the initials L G (Limited). Perfins were applied by thousands of companies across the British Commonwealth to prevent pilfering of postage stamps by employees, or by postal thieves who would remove stamps in transit for re-use.
It was possible many years ago to take unused stamps back to the post office and obtain a refund.
You won't find company security perfins in any standard catalogue.
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08:00:49pm
re: 1932 australian
dogtag,
I have always succeeded in finding my Australian or Australian Colony perfins at one of these web-sites:
http://www.perfins.com.au/
and
http://www.philatelicdatabase.com/australia-and-dependencies/perfins-of-new-zealand-and-australia/
good luck!
Dennis
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re: 1932 australian
Too good to be true.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/2017-Scott-Worldwide-Stamp-Catalogues-Complete-Set-Volumes-1-Thru-6/172660637676?_trksid=p2054502.c100227.m3827&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20160908103841%26meid%3Dfa77a25d7e114d16a0fbf68b1c59b46b%26pid%3D100227%26rk%3D3%26rkt%3D11%26mehot%3Dlo%26sd%3D332175666292
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re: 1932 australian
Stampcollector. Yes indeed. Zero feedback and free shipping from Hong Kong that would cost more than the asking price of the 6 volume set, might raise a couple flags. Still, I'm wondering if I want to throw away $28 to find out, stranger things might have happened.
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re: 1932 australian
According to what I read on the item shipping is free. Reckon it would cost more than $28 dollars to ship, even converted to Chinese currency.
Only one left, no other items for sale and only an ebay member since March 21st. good job I have a barge pole.
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07:35:44am
re: 1932 australian
But what does a seemingly "too good to be true" Scotts catalog set have to do with a 1932 Australian perfin?
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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..
10 May 2017
09:32:38am
re: 1932 australian
" ....You won't find company security
perfins in any standard catalogue....."
Ahh, the danger of absolutes.
While it is far superior to catalogs,
the Complete Deegam Machin Handbook
contains, in one of its appendices,
a complete illustrated ( and identified)
example of every currently known perfin
applied to Machin stamps.
It may not help with Aussie stamps.
But just for the record.
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