Many years ago, the king locked up his alchemist so he could come out with a way to turn waste metals to gold. He was unsuccessful but managed the next best thing - he found a way to make fine china - at that time a secret know-how from the Orient. Hence began Meissen as the the first porcelain manufacturing town in the west....and a very prosperous one too .....
Post card from Meissen
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