It's amazing to me, that some stoves were never used...or very little. I can't imagine buying something and not using it...maybe these people had a big estate, with in-house chefs or just preferred that good old smokey green egg cooker. LOL. I wonder ...how old is this unit?
Found this ad on Ebay - it's not the exact model, but very similar. It appears that the one in the ad is maybe one up the line (TOL?) from the one for sale in Birmingham. Anyway, gives a nice description of most of the features on the Birmingham model.
The Hardwick Stove Company history is interesting - guess they still operate the textile mill(?), though all is owned now by Maytag. I just ran across this page :