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. 11 shown for “Matchsafe and Cigar Cutter” — 40 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 20:17 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Matchsafe and Cigar Cutter
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1895
Matchsafe Hand Holding Cigar Amid Smoke and Man Blowing Smoke
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Vices Theme, with Large Goblet
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Matchsafe
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1901–02
Matchsafe
Whitehead & Hoag Company · ca. 1900
Cigar and Matches
Reeves and Sillcocks · ca. 1900
"Smoke Up & Up Fumar Cigars"
Huntley, Boorne, & Stevens · 1870–80
Cigar Butt
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
"Escepcional De La Espanola"
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th century
Advertisement for Cigar Maker's Union #97, Boston
Whitehead & Hoag Company · patented 1905
"Henry Clay" cigar box
Artist not stated in the record · late 19th 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. The archive returned no records for this term.0 matched - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1464137 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 20:17 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.