In the link provided by Fernando, a halberd with similar marks is shown as Swiss, latter 15th c. In Wallace Collection a dagger again with similar marks is shown as Swiss 16th c.
In a reference on medieval cutlery , "Knives and Daggers" (Cowgill; DeNeergaard; and Griffiths, 1987), these kinds of knives are apparently termed 'scale tang' knives (grips are mounted directly to tang sides by rivets) and seem to date to around mid 14th century. It is noted that marks began to be consistently applied around end of 14th in about 50% of examples. This reference is confined mostly to excavated examples in mostly London.
As London was of course considerably metropolitan, many continental wares and trade items from the Continent were present. It seems that these knives were of course common throughout, so isolating them to any particular location for origin seems pretty unlikely. There is an example of this type marking on several examples of both knives and shears.
By the same token, these kinds of marks are found on sword blades mostly in Germany and in Italy but are typically difficult to assign to any maker and stand mostly as quality associated symbols. They are commonly referred to as 'mill rinds' or 'cogwheels' by various writers, and often as using the heraldic term 'mullet'.
Such marks may have had significance to certain makers locally in the time of original production, but such specific records are not usually known, or sparsely detailed let alone accurate. Some '...records suggest that the mark belonged to the Master of the Workshop, but sheds no light on whether he used one, or a number of marks"..("Knives and Scabbards", p.33).
It would be equally possible for this knife to have come from Styria, who often spuriously used both Italian and German markings. Its appearance in Russian strata would be consistant with trade and normal diffusion.
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