OpenTwo archives, queried live.
Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Airmail Service chest badge, number 1” — 64 records examined, 2 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 13:32 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Messenger Badge and Shield
Artist not stated in the record · badge, 1400–1450; shield, ca. 1800
Airmail Service chest badge, number 1
Artist not stated in the record · 1918
Canopic Chest of Khonsu
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1290–1224 BCE
Sea post clerk chest badge, number 81
Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1940
Messenger Badge
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1300
Sea post clerk chest badge, number 72
Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1940
Messenger Badge
Artist not stated in the record · 15th century
Sea Post clerk chest badge, number 88
Artist not stated in the record · 1891-1940
Linen Chest Reused as a Child's Coffin
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1479–1396 BCE
Custodial chest badge, number 2419
Artist not stated in the record · Date of issue: unknown
Canopic box of Hatnefer
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1491–1473 BCE
RMS clerk chest badge, number 74996
Artist not stated in the record · 1949
Commode (Secrétaire à abattant)
Jean Henri Riesener · 1783
Base Post Office chest badge, number 250
Artist not stated in the record · 1950s
Virgin and Child with Four Angels
Gerard David · ca. 1510–15
RMS clerk chest badge, number 17542
American Railway Supply Company · 1898
Armorial Plate (tondino): The story of King Midas
Nicola da Urbino · ca. 1520–25
Custodial employee chest badge, number 13
Artist not stated in the record · 1921
Paris
Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) · ca. 1518–1524
RMS clerk chest badge, number 12046
American Railway Supply Company · 1899
Rubens, Helena Fourment (1614–1673), and Their Son Frans (1633–1678)
Peter Paul Rubens · ca. 1635
RMS clerk chest badge, number 84964
Artist not stated in the record · 1949
Shabti of the High Priest of Amun, Painedjem II
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1000–979 BCE
RMS clerk chest badge, number 5968
Artist not stated in the record · 1899
Where these records came from.
Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.
- The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field:
isPublicDomain. 58 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 7484261 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-01 13:32 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.
Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.
An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.