Thanks for your interesting take on this lovely little dagger Jim, could well be made for a man, either way it is a nice piece and very well made, old to, could even be 19thc, would not surprize me if it were, if anyone has a small silver or nickel scabbard chape that would fit it and is in UK I would be interested to purchase it, it would finish it nicely before I part from it.
Snody