At Messermacher, knife-making is an art

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Around 100m from the house where Mozart was born, among the winding streets and coloured façades of Salzburg’s medieval city centre, there’s a shop dedicated to a lesser-known part of Austrian heritage. A plaque in the shop window informs passersby: “In central Europe a knife was considered an heirloom, a treasure to be passed down from generation to…