Nice!!
This knife is probably much closer to the size knife carried during the 1880s on ... once cartridges made pistols pretty dependable, there was no longer any need for that 2-3 lbs of knfe to be hanging from the belt .... and unless one was butchering bison and other large animals, there was no longer any need for a huge knife.
So your lovely knife is probably far closer to a carrying knife during the cartridge era than those big bruisers we see at shoots ...
Sweet!