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Any mistake made in the (36) ________ of a stamp raises its value to stamp (37) ________. A mistake on a (38) ________ stamp has made it worth a million and a half times its face value. Do you think it (39) ________ Well, it is true. And this is how it (40) ________. The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the former British (41) ________ of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847, an order for stamps was sent to London. Mauritius was about to become the (42) ________ country in the world to put out stamps. Before the order was filled and the (43) ________ arrived from England, a big dance was planned by the Commander-in-chief of all the armed forces on the island. (44) ________________. Stamps were badly needed to post the letters. Therefore, an islander, who was a good printer, was told to copy the pattern of the stamps. (45) ________________. Today, there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left—fourteen One-penny Reds and twelve Two-penny Blues. Because there are so few Two-penny Blues and because of their age, (46) ________________.