Great Britain 1840 2d blue Plate 1, SG5 Tonga stamps sent from Coventry to Hinkley

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Great Britain 1840 2d blue Plate 1, SG5 Tonga stamps sent from Coventry to HinkleyGreat Britain 1840 2d blue Plate 1, SG5. A very fine used close to large four margin horizontal strip of five lettered 'KF KJ' showing double letter "I" variety on KI, neatly cancelled by orange red Maltese Crosses. Despite a vertical crease between impressions of 'KG KH' it is a truly spectacular and scarce multiple of the two penny blue stamp, which was issued at the same time as the penny black on 6th May 1840. The example with double letter "I"