Thank you for the photo, eftihis. I think on your knife is the same motive (not a design, it is various, namely an ornamental motive).
This motive is present on most tseberliki of old Cretan knives, sometimes in very developed and explicit forms, sometimes in simplified and almost unrecognizable forms.
The fact that this motive is so characteristic of Cretan knife seems very interesting to me. I even visited the bank safe
Jim McDougall, thanks for the interesting information from a rare book.