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How can a single postage stamp be worth $ 16,800? Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp coll
How can a single postage stamp be worth $ 16,800? Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp coll
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2009-08-21
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问题
How can a single postage stamp be worth $ 16,800?
Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value to stamp collectors. A mistake on one in expensive’ postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value.
The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small is land in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a London printer, and Mauritius was to become the fourth country in the world to issue stamps.
Before the order was filled and delivered, a ball (舞会) was planned at Mauritius’ Government House, and stamps were needed to send out the invitations. A local printer was instructed to copy the de sign for the stamps. He accidentally inscribed the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid" on the sever al hundred stamps that he printed.
Today there are only twenty-six of these misprinted stamps left--fourteen "One Penny Orange-Reds" and twelve "Two Penny Blues". Because of the Two Penny Blue’s rareness (罕见) and age, collectors have paid as much as $ 16,800 for it.
选项
A、there are few others like it
B、there are no errors on the stamps
C、a mistake is made in the ,printing
D、both A and C
答案
C
解析
此题为理解题。根据第2段第1句Any mistake made in the printing of a stamp raises its value o stamp collectors可以看出,对集邮者而言,邮票的印刷的任何错误都可使该邮票升值,故C为正确答案。A也能使其增值,但文中并没有提及到。B不符常情。
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