European (Italian?) Dagger

[A Senefelder]

I saw that as well, but hardly firearm makers are also sword makers.

Is it possible that M.Franzini referes to a firm? Several craftsman of different types working for a mastercraftsman? Of course given the popularity of plagerizing the names of renown makers like Ferrara its quite possible that the Franzini name has been used by another maker on this example to appear to be some one elses work.