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 “Edward Sachse and Company” — 64 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-06 18:42 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Merry Company on a Terrace
Jan Steen · ca. 1670
Membership Certificate, "Friendship Fire Company"
Edward Sachse and Company · c.1850
Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 17156
Smith & Wesson · 1881–1902
To the Brethren of the Order of I.O.O.F.
Edward Sachse and Company · 1859
Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900
Hon. Charles Sumner
E. Sachse and Company · 1874
Covered Vase
Edward Lycett · 1886–90
Harper's Ferry, Va.
E. Sachse and Company · n.d.
Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893
U.S. Patent Office
Edward Sachse & Co., active 1851 - 1874? · n.d.a.
Raven rattle
Albert Edward Edenshaw · ca. 1850
The Shackle Broken by the Genius of Freedom
Edward Sachse & Co., active 1851 - 1874? · 1874
Young Man and Woman in an Inn
Frans Hals · 1623
Patent Office
Edward Sachse & Co., active 1851 - 1874? · c. 1855
Madame Georges Charpentier (Marguerite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Emile-Charles (1875–1895)
Auguste Renoir · 1878
Confederacy March
Edward Sachse & Co., active 1851 - 1874? · 1861
Madonna and Child Enthroned with Two Angels
Fra Filippo Lippi · ca. 1440
Smithsonian Institute
Edward Sachse, born Görlitz, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany)-died Baltimore, MD 1873 · ca. 1855
Edward Everett
Mathew B. Brady · ca. 1858
Gallinago gallinago gallinago
Artist not stated in the record
Pink and Rose
William Morris · ca. 1890
Hon. Robert B. Elliott of South Carolina Delivering His Great Speech On Civil Rights in the House of Representatives
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1874; printed later
Annunciation Triptych (Merode Altarpiece)
Robert Campin · ca. 1427–32
Helichrysum auriceps Hilliard
Artist not stated in the record · 17 Feb 2008
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. 477 matched · 24 examined · 12 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. 1570356 matched · 40 examined · 28 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 2026-09-06 18:42 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.