Nécessaire
Often in the wider world we use french words to cover international names such as buffet, hors d'oeuvre, and many others.
Nécessaire, literately means needed or necessary, is a small note book, the pages often in the past on ivory or ivorine and or celluloid. Meaning that a note can be made and then rubbed out and used again.
Top item on the chatelaine yet another french word is the nécessaire. Of course these items were not just for staff or ladies running houses they could be on an albertina watch chain or even a long guard.
At dances girls would book ion their dancers for the evening to make sure all fair and no one left out. Making the nécessaire note book a must have. Often these can be highly glamour in precious metals, and inlaid with precocious stones too.
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