can anyone tell me about this sgain dubh

[Ron Abbott]

I'd say considerably more than that if it was cleaned up a bit.

In the end I suppose it is worth what anyone is willing to pay for it, but I'd be surprised if someone wouldn't pay 200 GBP+ for it.

One thing I have not seen for many, many years is a sgian dubh with a small silver ball on the bottom of the scabbard. They were made to stop the item snagging on hose as they were inserted. My father had a beautiful hand-engraved, silver sgian dubh from the late 1800s with that feature but sadly it was lost/stolen in France thirty years ago.

I've scoured auction sites and ebay since getting the internet in case someone ever tries to sell it as it was fairly unique and had initials engraved on it!