Help Identifying Stamp

I'm curious what stamp this is?
It was mixed in with some turkey stamps
Helvetia maybe?

Yes. it is Switzerland.

Thanks rod

I think you're right. I'd say Switzerland Scott #87a, 87b, 97, or 97a, depending on the perfs and the now-invisible color.

12x11

Are you sure it's not 11½ x 11? Scott doesn't list a 12 x 11 variety.

I just realized that it can't be 97a, since that wasn't issued until 1903, and this stamp was cancelled in 1901. Also, since this looks to me like perf. 11½ x 11, that rules out both 97a and 87b, which are perf. 11½ x 12. That leaves 87a and 97, which are distinguished by color: 87a is claret, 97 is carmine. There's no telling which color this stamp was originally.

Been wrong before but looks closer to 12
But if If it's listed as 11 1/2 I guess that's what it is

I re-checked just to be sure
Best I got was perf 12 top and bottom and 11 1/2 on the sides

Hmm. That certainly does look like 12 x 11½, even though every listing in Scott for this type has a top edge of 11½, with the exception of the 1888 issue, which is perf. 9½. Be that as it may, I think we're still looking at either 87a or 97.

This stamp has probably been threw a lot

Bleaching out the rust mold didn't have "a ghost of a chance" of working.

Or, it did, but the cure was worse than the disease.

Gotta respect what it's been threw
Least now I know what section it goes in

I just noticed on the backside someone has written on it
At some point someone thought it a 97
I'm not sure what the rest is ...

That's "87".

Sorry 87

Scott is really no good for Swiss perforations, since so many of them are in ¼ increments.