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An Unusual Silver-Mounted Hunting Hanger Presented To John Harvey Esqr. By H.S.E. Prince Of Hesse-Cassell For Saving His Life At A Boar HuntCirca 1701
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Circa 1701
Circa 1701
56 cm. blade
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Provenance
John Harvey (c.1667-1721) of Finningley, Nottinghamshire and Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire was educated at Inner Temple and St. Catherine's, Cambridge in 1682, and subsequently went on the Grand Tour between 1688 and 1689. In 1689 he married Sarah, the fourth daughter of Sir John Robinson, 1st Baronet and M.P. of Nuneham Courtnay, Oxon and Farmingwoods, Northamptonshire, who was Lord Mayor of London between 1662 and 1663. John Harvey was Sheriff of Bedfordshire between 1711 and 1712 and was re-elected for the county as a Tory in 1715 but was unseated on petition. His name was sent to the Pretender in 1721 as a probable supporter in the event of an uprising, and he died in 1721.
Burke's Geneaological and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain, 1874 quotes the following under John Harvey of Ickwell Bury: 'A very handsome silver mounted couteau de chasse was presented to this gentleman by the Prince of Hesse Cassel in 1701 in consequence of his having saved the prince's life when exposed to imminent danger in a boar hunt. It is still in the possession of the family.'
The Prince of Hesse Cassel is Prince Friedrich of Hesse Cassel, later King of Sweden (1676-1751)








