Historical clue formulations

• It's often rapped but never spoken — 2025-12-07
• Auctioneer's mallet — 2024-11-19
• Courtroom banger — 2023-09-26
• What may bring a meeting to order — 2023-03-26
• Auctioneer's aid — 2022-08-28
• Rapper in court — 2021-03-03
• A chair might hold one — 2020-06-25
• Judge's mallet — 2018-07-02
• It helps call a meeting to order — 2014-01-06
• It may punctuate a court order — 2011-12-04
• Something a chair may hold — 2009-07-16
• It may be within a judge's grasp — 2006-10-25
• "The People's Court" prop — 2006-07-26
• Court instrument — 2004-08-11
• Court attention-getter — 2001-01-17
• Signal in a courtroom — 1997-09-13
• Auctioneer's aid — 1997-02-09