E-bay Buy Arrived - Horsehead

Finally received the pipe I bought on E-bay, unfortunately I can't upload any pictures right now, so I'm instead using the ones from E-bay. They however do not show the "briar" stamp very well, nor what may be tool markings or some "o o" stamping to the right of "briar".
Does anyone have any info regarding pipes like this one ? Is it briar, or is it ... plastic ? It's not symmetrical, if you look at the front of it, it looks like the horse is raising one eye brow lol, and couple other details don't match the right side perfectly to the left. Plus as you can see, one of the ears on the horse head is broken off.

So after rubbing it with alcohol, turns out the stamp says "briarwood", one word ... but ... is it really briar ?

hahahaha I know huh ? Something tells me it's not real briar, but who knows ... I guess I just wanted to know before I strip off the varnish and restain it all black

No, I paid 10 bucks for it lol, figured it would look somewhat different, more like a souvenir.
Main reason I was asking whether it was even remotely possible it was made out briar (even though it's stamped "briarwood" I'm pretty sure it's made of something like Brylon or similar to it) is I haven't yet posted the feedback on Ebay.
Oh yes, those Adolf Hitler pipes, yeah I saw them when I was trying to verify if the JFK ones were real, if they were Marxman pipes, then I came across several multi colored ones like ... Hitler, Stalin, Mao Tse Tong etc .. you name it
HOWEVER ... on a different subject .. my other pipe that I bought on E-bay arrived today, it's a Jeantet, definitely briar, I used some of the green scouring pad on it, and it looks a lot better than the factory overdone stain
I'll probably post pics of it eventually once I'm done refinishing the Jeantet one, and will also post another one of the horse head one, once I stain it black