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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. 16 shown for “Colt's Manufacturing Company, American, founded 1855” — 64 records examined, 48 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 09:58 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940
Samuel Colt · ca. 1840
Cartridge pouch for a Colt M1896 (0.38-caliber) revolver
Artist not stated in the record · 1906
Colt Model 1855 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 4460, with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1856
M1917 Revolver issued by US Army during WWI to Charles H. Houston
Colt's Manufacturing Company, American, founded 1855 · January 1918
Colt Model 1862 Police Revolver, serial no. 38549
Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company · ca. 1868
Model 1860 Army revolver by Colt
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1863
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
Colt Model 1855 Half-Stock Percussion Sporting Revolving Rifle
Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company · ca 1857
Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
Colt Model 1855 Sidehammer Pocket Revolver
Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company · 1855
Armchair
Pottier and Stymus Manufacturing Company · ca. 1875–76
Colt Walker Percussion Revolver, serial no. 1017
Samuel Colt · 1847
Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900
Smith & Wesson Model 1 ½ Second Issue Revolver (serial no. 30451) with Case
Smith & Wesson · 1869
Vase
Kate B. Sears · ca. 1892
Toast Rack
Gorham Manufacturing Company · ca. 1865
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. 210 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1034668 matched · 40 examined · 35 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.5 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 09:58 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.