A Victorian mahogany domestic longcase regulator timepiece, Berry and Son, West Hartlepool, circa 1875 The eight-day four pillar single train movement with Harrison’s maintaining power, deadbeat escapement regulated by wood rod pendulum and thick tapered plates, the 14 inch circular cream painted Roman numeral dial with subsidiary seconds dial and signed BERRY & SON, WEST HARTLEPOOL to centre and with steel spade hands, the shallow break-arch case with slender cornice and deep projecting frieze over brass bezel flanked by canted angles to hood, the trunk with slender concave throat mouldings over shallow arch glazed door enclosing veneered backboard and flanked by conforming canted angles, the crossbanded plinth base with canted top skirt, 211cm (83ins) high. A G.F. Berry is recorded in Loomes, Brian Watchmakers & Clockmakers of the World, Volume 2 as working in West Hartlepool in 1898. It is likely that this record is for the successor of Berry & Son who appear not to be listed separately.