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Originally Posted by sexobon
It's the "forged bee" symbol, derived from French heraldry (Napoleonic era), used by the originator of that knife style in France. The "royal bee" also appears on coinage of the era. Today the symbol is used worldwide in the manufacture of knives even remotely similar to the original as a marketing gimmick.
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Hmmph. Most of the ones I see on Google Image search ("Laguiole bee") look a hell of a lot more like a bee than that. I bet that it only got named the "Timber Rattler" because someone in marketing thought it looked like a rattlesnake head too.