Strange Brulor / Hecht Billiard with detachable bowl.

[KrustyBob]

Found this strange Hecht pipe being sold under the Brulor brand, and my curiosity got the best of me.

The style is similar to a Falcon with the briar bowl screwing directly into the vulcanite stem. There is a small chamber between the bottom of the briar.

From the lip, I'm given to understand that it is from the 1930's or earlier?

Does anyone know anything about what this style of pipe is, the history of it, and how old it might be?

I can imagine that both the briar and vulcanite threads are not the most durable so perhaps this was an idea that was ahead of its time and couldn't be commercially realized until the Falcon came around later.

 

[Chasing Embers]

Appears they're still available. Quite inexpensive as well.

 

[TheIronMonkey]

As I recall, Belgian pipemaker (living and working in France), Bruno Nuttens, purchased the stock of a French pipe shop from a person whose grandfather ran a pipe shop in or near Saint-Claude, France; in the stock, there was a motherlode of NOS pipes of various brands from circa 1960 and earlier. Nuttens has been selling them for years on eBay. These days, a number of online retailers sell these vintage pipes sourced from Bruno. Most of the Brulor pipes are circa 1940s or earlier—I don’t think there’s a way to reliably date them beyond that. I first purchased pipes from Bruno in 2021 and that order included Hecht and Brulor pipes that were listed as being from 1960.