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 “Fickardt’s Patent Model of a Furnace – ca 1836” — 24 records examined, 3 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 18:58 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 Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Fickardt’s Patent Model of a Furnace – ca 1836
Artist not stated in the record · 1836-09-08

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940
Samuel Colt · ca. 1840

Webster’s Patent Model of a Hot-Air Furnace - ca 1866
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1866

Colt Model 1855 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 4460, with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1856

Hillson’s Patent Model of a Hot-Air Furnace - ca 1848
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1848

Colt Model 1851 Navy Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2
Samuel Colt · 1850

Sturtevant’s Patent Model of a Hot Air Furnace - ca 1869
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1869

Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 7569, with Accessories
Samuel Colt · 1861

Fowler’s Patent Model of a Furnace Steam Boiler - ca 1856
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1856

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

White’s Patent Model of a Hot-Air Furnace - ca 1872
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1872

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

Holley’s Patent Model of a Steam-Boiler Furnace – 1880
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1880

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 3, Belt Model, Serial no. 156, with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1838

Adam’s Patent Model of a Stove Drum - ca 1868
Artist not stated in the record · 1868-12-22

Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver with Thuer Conversion for Self-Contained Cartridges, Serial no. 27060
Samuel Colt · 1853; converted for cartidges, ca. 1868–71

Colt Paterson Pocket Percussion Revolver, Fourth Ehlers Model, serial no. 152, with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1840–43

Colt Percussion Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1870

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 528
Samuel Colt · ca. 1838–40
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. 13 matched · 13 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. 11 matched · 11 examined · 3 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 2026-09-05 18:58 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.