The American philatelist
The American Philatelist is a stamp-collecting periodical issued in Altoona, Pennsylvania, in 1887 by the American Philatelic Association for stamp collectors. The picture is a circular association seal showing a seated woman in classical drape writing on a tablet beside a globe, ringed by lettering and dated 1891. A designer could take from it a compact emblem layout in which a central figure sits within a bordered roundel with curved text and a banner-style date.
