PS
for the ones who are into history , this is arduino prototype 0
beautiful.
if you are ever to release a retro-arduino looking like that i want one. 
thank you for explaining how this spacing thing happened. and sorry for my little rant. But still i think this is a real bug, which makes me angry on a regular base. please think of the future. 10.000+ boards are enough in my opinion.
as for the remaining shields in stock i propose something like that:
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