Newfoundland #8a 1857 8d scarlet vermilion diagonal bisect, with enormous margins at top and left, nicely tied by barred oval handstamp on 1860 folded letter sheet from St. Johns with red "Paid" MR 28 1860 dispatch cds to Baltimore "pr Mail via Halifax" and with AP 9 "Boston Br. Pkt." cds in black, two vertical file folds do not affect the stamp. Extremely fine and a wonderful example of the 8d bisect used to pay the 4d stg. rate to the United States. Accompanied by 1979 BPA certificate. Unitrade CV$6,500.