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. 22 shown for “Machine for Wrapping Wire-Rope, Patent Model” — 50 records examined, 26 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 17:23 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
Machine for Wrapping Wire-Rope, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1842
Christ and the Two Thieves Crucified
Michelangelo Buonarroti · ca. 1560–70
1838 Day's Patent Model of a Cordage Machine
Artist not stated in the record · 1838-02-07
Archtop Guitar
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1917
Elastic Lanyard, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1872
Mandola
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1917
Glidden Fence Making Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1870 - 1874
Mandolin
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1917
Patent Model for a Paper-ruling Machine
Averell, Ellicott D. · ca 1873
Mandocello
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1916
1838 Parsons's Patent Model of a Cloth Shearing Machine
Artist not stated in the record · 1838-11-25
Mandola
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1919
1838 Faber's Patent Model of a Hand Card
Artist not stated in the record · 1838-08-01
Banjo
Benjamin Bradbury · ca. 1885
Howe’s Patent Model of a Pin Making Machine - ca 1841
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1841
Mandolin
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1916
Patent model for typecasting device for embossed or pointed type
Bryant, Isaac C. · ca 1860
Mandocello
Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · 1916
Lucien S. Crandall Typewriter Patent Model
Crandall, Lucien S. · 1881-12-20
1854 - Walter Hunt's Patent Model of a Sewing Machine
Artist not stated in the record · 1854-06-27
Black hat with pink velveteen brim
Consello, American · mid 20th 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. 14 matched · 14 examined · 4 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.10 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 36 matched · 36 examined · 22 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 2026-09-02 17:23 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.