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. 24 shown for “Copper alloy razor” — 64 records examined, 22 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-27 03:07 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Copper alloy razor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800–1725 BCE

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Razor
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1550–1458 BCE

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Six-Barreled Pepperbox Disk Primer Pistol with Case and Accessories
Joseph Rock Cooper · ca. 1840–1850

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Longcase clock
Hermann Achenbach · ca. 1774–75

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Armor (Gusoku) with Box
Neo Masanobu 根尾正信 · 19th century; helmet bowl, early 18th century

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Smith and Wesson .44 Double-Action Revolver for George Jay Gould (1864–1923), serial no. 23402, with Case and Cleaning Brush
Smith & Wesson · 1888–89

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Center table
Imperial Armory, Tula (south of Moscow), Russia · ca. 1780–85

Weight
Akan artist · 15th-early 18th century

Saddle, Saddle Pad, Stirrups, Rein, Stirrup Straps, Bit and Bridle, Breaststrap, Tassel, and Crupper
Artist not stated in the record · 18th–19th century

Weight
Akan artist · 1400-1720

Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE

Bracelet
Kongo artist · 17th-18th century

Armor (Gusoku)
Bamen Tomotsugu · 18th century

Prayer staff finial
Ethiopian Orthodox · 17th century
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. 19048 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 29606 matched · 40 examined · 18 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 2026-08-27 03:07 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.