Over the years, House gavels have been made in different sizes with different materials. The current design is made of maple and has a lacquer finish and accent lines burned into the wood.

As clips of Texas lawmakers breaking gavels go viral on social media, the Statesman set about to find out where they're made.

On display is the first available issue of a gavel created by local wood turner Bobbi Tornheim in the woodshop of Lexington Arts and Craft Society. It is made from bits of a giant sugar maple that ...

The Illinois Republican banged his wooden gavel hard enough to knock off its head, which landed between the clerks on the lower tier of the rostrum. In that era, House gavels commonly broke from ...

We have a few ideas below. The Gavel: It is a rather simple wooden gavel that was a gift from my wife (then fiancée) Livia in 2001, on the occasion of my first auction at Phillips. She ...

“While AOC personnel in the Carpentry Section are capable of crafting gavels, and have done so for years, much of the wood that is recovered from Capitol campus trees is unsuitable for that use ...

The wooden gavel – which once summoned the most unruly lawyers to order – has gone the way of the powdered wig. Judges rarely, if ever, wield a gavel in the city’s state and federal ...

The weather was perfect on April 26, 1929, as a delegation from Jackson gathered on the lawn of the White House and stood with U.S. President Herbert Hoover. They presented him with a small ...