The Syng inkstand is a silver inkstand used during the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the United States Constitution in 1787. Besides paper documents, it is one of four still-existing objects that were present during the Constitutional Convention, along with the Liberty Bell, the chair that George Washington sat in as the Constitutional Convention's presiding officer, and Independence Hall itself.
Syng inkstand
Scene at the Signing of the Constitution of the United States, by Howard Chandler Christy (1940), shows the inkstand.
John Henry Hintermeister's 1925 painting Foundation of American Government portrays the inkstand
The obverse of the United States one-hundred-dollar bill has presented a stylized representation of the Syng inkstand's inkwell since 2013
United States Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence, formally titled The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, is the founding document of the United States. On July 4, 1776, it was adopted unanimously by the 56 delegates to the Second Continental Congress, who had convened at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in the colonial era capital of Philadelphia. The declaration explains to the world why the Thirteen Colonies regarded themselves as independent sovereign states no longer subject to British colonial rule.
The 1823 facsimile of the engrossed copy of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson, the principal author of the Declaration, depicted in an 1801 portrait by Rembrandt Peale
The Assembly Room in Independence Hall in Philadelphia, where the Second Continental Congress unanimously adopted the Declaration of Independence
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776, a 1900 portrait by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris depicting Franklin, Adams, and Jefferson working on the Declaration
