A SWEDISH PRESENTATION SWORD TO C.A.BAUMANN, DATED 7TH SEPTEMBER 1818 with curved fullered blade double-edged towards the tip, etched and gilt with a star, a pair of fronds enclosing a scene of judgement, crossed cannon over fasces on a blued panel on one face and with a similar design incorporating the Royal Arms on the other (light wear), gilt-brass stirrup hilt cast and chased in low relief, comprising a pair of langets cast with neoclassical foliage and a male mascaron on each side, quillon issuant from a wolf's head, knuckle-guard en suite and interrupted by a central mask, angular pommel formed as a lion head with fasces on its neck, a pair of mother-of-pearl grip-scales engraved with the crowned Royal cypher 'CJ XIV' on one face and 'Erindring 1der Septemb 1818 C.A.Baumann' on the other, in its original gilt-brass mounted leather-covered wooden scabbard, the mounts decorated with neoclassical ornament en suite with the hilt 82.5 cm; 32 1/2 in blade Charles XIV John, King of Sweden and Norway (1763-1844), was crowned in Stockholm Cathedral on 11th May 1818 and subsequently travelled to Norway where he was crowned in Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, on 7th September 1818. The vendor's notes state that C.A.Baumann was a German industrialist and mining expert who was presented with this sword at the Coronation.