In looking more for this 'cross' design, I have found no evidence of this in the usual (and unusual) references other than crossed items used in proof marks mostly ordnance context with firearms.
However, I finally went to "British Military Sword 1600-60" Stuart Mowbray, 2013, and here are the most breathtaking photos and detailed captions of most of the actual swords we discuss. Every page is a gold mine of data, Stuart is one of the brilliant researchers and arms scholars of our time. He learned well from his father Andrew Mowbray, author of "The American Eagle Pommel Sword", and literally grew up immersed in weapons.
Hangers with virtually the exact fuller pattern from Solingen are seen, on p.175 is one but in the space where the wolf would be as on yours, there is the 'sickle mark' and surmounted by ANNO 1551. Here he notes these numbers and the word Anno are often palindromes, and that the numbers are (as I contend) magical . He disagrees and suggests that they are likely numbers of the year of establishment of the firm of the maker of the blade.
He has disagreed with me before on the presence of magic sigils and glyphs on blades insisting they are makers marks, but I must contend that magic devices are profoundly present on blades. It would seem odd that the year of maker founding would be represented when the blade is void of any mark denoting what maker that is.
On p.167, the number 1551 occurs again over a notably deviated 'cross and orb', a device used in the collective manner of the running wolf and 'sickle marks'. ..in this case the ANNO does not appear.
REGARDING THE CROSS AND DOTS:
on p.168 and on p.162, the decorative motif used on numbers of these hilts of Hounslow style is the cross hatch style with dots.....called dot and trellis.
This seems to have been popular in the early to mid 17th c. in motif, and would seem to have been added above the running wolf in that styled convention.
On that shield, while the device or sigil is 'similar' the one on the hanger blade noted is decidely different with the configuration of the arms.
As noted though, these designs seem to have been popular and were altered and configured in variation much as the cross bars on the cross and orbs and the anchors used along with inscriptions.
Most markings have been recorded from collected weapons over years by curators and collectors, and our references are compendiums of those rather than official records of regulating agencies.
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