Two 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. 20 shown for “Bodkin case” — 62 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:34 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Bodkin case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80

Bodkin Case
Unidentified · 1770-1800

Bodkin case
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1770–80

Bodkin Case
Unidentified · 600-300 B.C.

Nécessaire
Tahan · ca. 1815

Bodkin Case
Unidentified · 1750-1800

Swiss Dagger with Sheath, Bodkin, and By-Knife
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570

Bodkin Case
Unidentified · 1750-1800

Nécessaire
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Bodkin Case
Unidentified · 1750-1800

Étui
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70

Bodkin Case
Unidentified · 1750-1800

Casket with scenes from the Story of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba
Artist not stated in the record · 1670s

Patent model for printers' pocket case for bodkins and tweezers
Quail, William · ca 1867

Étui
Robert Sayer · ca. 1765–70

Trillium pusillum var. monticulum Bodkin & Reveal
Artist not stated in the record · 18 Apr 1981

Nécessaire
Artist not stated in the record · first quarter 18th century

Nécessaire
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1750–60

Nécessaire
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Étui
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1765–70
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. 22 matched · 22 examined · 0 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. 19550 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 03:34 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.