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Bru-Bu
A Swiss pipe factory that emerged from the workshop Josef Brunner founded in Kleinlützel in 1878, taking the name Bru-Bu after a 1932 partnership and known for its BBK mark.
Bru-Bu is the trade name, adopted after 1932, of the pipe factory founded in the village of Kleinlützel in the Swiss canton of Solothurn. Because of the BBK mark stamped on its pipes, it is most often referred to by collectors under those three letters.
Kleinlützel: a Small Village's Pipe Industry
Kleinlützel, a mountain village of a few hundred households close to the French border, became Switzerland's focal point for pipe production by the end of the 19th century. It owes this to two family businesses: the workshop the Brunner family started in 1878, and a second factory Moritz Tschan founded in 1892. The concentration of two benches in the same valley earned the village the epithet "Switzerland's Saint-Claude." The Tschan facility is open to visitors today as a pipe and cane factory museum with its machinery kept in working order; of the Brunner business, only the brand name and mark remain.
Josef Brunner's Workshop
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