From the Richmond Dispatch, 12/16/1862, p. 2, c. 6
EXTENSIVE SLAE OF TOBACCO FACTORY FIXTURES AT AUCTION. – By request of the surviving partners, I will sell at the Factory of Messrs. Thomas & Samuel Hardgrove, on MONDAY, the 15th day of December, at 11 o'clock, all of their Factory Fixtures &c., consisting of –
Hydraulic Press, with retainers, Mills, etc., complete;
Screws; Mills, of every size;
Bands; Blocks; Tins; Levers;
Stoves; Tobacco; Licorice;
Benches; Scales; Knives;
And in fact everything usually found in an extensive and well regulated Tobacco Factory, all of which are in excellent condition.
The attention of Tobacconists and the public generally is requested, as the character of the above Fixtures is so favorably and so generally known.
E. B. COOK, Auct.
CONTINUATION – The above sale will be continued THIS DAY, at 11 o'clock.
E. B. COOK, Auct.
de 16 – 1t