About GrafixMat Coasters
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Front
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Back Story
About GrafixMat Coasters:
Each GrafixMat® is a work of art, masterfully laser-engraved on the cork front with a unique and amusing story colorfully illustrated on its flip-side. For a treasured gift or your own personal collection; select one or create a set of 2, 4, 6 or more from 21 themed Collections totaling more than 500 contemporary and fine art designs. Made from eco-friendly recycled cork from Portugal and Spain, yet handcrafted in the U.S.A. GrafixMats® are so artfully designed and intriguing, we've created a hanging hole in the back of each coaster.
All Natural • Durable • Easy Wash • Singles or Sets • Storage Caddies • 4 1/4" Diameter, 5/16" Thick • Green Certified
Front Design:
Train 3
The Back Story:
The Iron Beast
The great Elihu Burrit wrote of the locomotives of that day and generation, “I love to see one of these high creatures, with sinews of brass and muscles of iron, strut forth from his stable and salute the train of cars with dozen sonorous puffs from his iron nostrils, then fall back gently into his harness. There he stands, champering and foaming upon the iron track, his great heart a furnace of glowing coals, his lymphatic blood boiling within his veins; the strength of a thousand horse is nerving his sinews; he pants to be gone.”
Elihu Burritt (December 8, 1810 – March 6, 1879) was an American philanthropist and social activist.