Replies

1. 
   lat_axe | May 01, 2020 03:23am | #1

   Gadroon. (Aka folderols & frippery).

   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadrooning

   Lataxe

2. 
   Gholson100 | May 02, 2020 05:35am | #2

   Thanks for the information.

3. 
   OldPal_ | Jun 20, 2020 01:29am | #3

   I've looked for the names of these as well and couldn't find them. My guess is their name is lost to the history books. Maybe if I find them someday I'll come here and post the name for them. Contrary to what one commenter said, the name for these profiles is not gadrooning. While gadrooning is present on one of the profiles and on other parts of the pieces, the profiles themselves are not gadrooning.

4. 
   lat_axe | Jun 20, 2020 04:11am | #4

   Gadzooks! Lost to the history books!

   It's possible that each example of a gadroon had a more specific name to differentiate it from the other gadroons about the workshop. Still, as a general name for the class of such things, it is the current meaning.

   Names: slippery things. Once upon a time humans thought all things had "true names" - the only possible name for a thing which itself somehow contained the essence of the thing named. In modern times we have dropped this nonsense in favour of recognising names as mere labels, which can be applied to new things different from the old one (thus acquiring additional or changed meaning) or just dropped because found redundant in changing times.

   But I would be terribly awfully interested in the "true names" of the various gadroon items referred to by the OP. What was once lost could be found. .... If it ever existed in the first place to get lost, that is. :-)

   Lataxe