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. 14 shown for “Marcus and Co., New York” — 64 records examined, 49 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 03:39 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Brooch
Marcus and Co. · ca. 1900

Watch fob
Marcus and Co., New York · 1880–90

Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 17156
Smith & Wesson · 1881–1902

Marcus Smith
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1860-70

Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia
John Targee · ca. 1815–17

Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900

Smith and Wesson .44 New Model No. 3 Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 25120
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1888

Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893

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

Smith and Wesson .38 Caliber Safety Third Model Double-Action Revolver, serial no. 83097, with Case
Smith & Wesson · 1892–93

Smith and Wesson .32 Caliber Single-Action Revolver, serial no. 94421
Smith & Wesson · 1892–93

Smith and Wesson .38 Caliber Double-Action Revolver, serial no. 70002
Smith & Wesson · 1882–83

Bronze portrait of a man
Artist not stated in the record · 1st half of 1st century CE

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940
Samuel Colt · ca. 1840
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. 14814 matched · 24 examined · 11 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. 1913064 matched · 40 examined · 38 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.2 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 03:39 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.