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. 23 shown for “Pair of Miquelet Pistols” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 05:46 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pair of Four-Barreled Turnover Percussion Pistols of Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 4th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne (1785–1851), with Pair of Box-Lock Turn-Off Pocket Pistols, Case, and Accessories
James Purdey the Elder · 1831

Aguirre 1804 Miquelet Lock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · 1804

Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and Accessories
Nicolas Noël Boutet · ca. 1800

Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record

Pair of Miquelet Pistols
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1687

Miquelet Lock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record

Pair of Over-and-Under Tube-Lock Percussion Pistols with Case and Accessories
Durs Egg · ca. 1805–10; converted after 1818

Spanish Miquelet Lock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1800

Pair of Miquelet Pistols
Francisco Pintan · dated 1757

Knife with Earthenware Handle (One of a Pair)
Artist not stated in the record · 19th century

Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796)
Johan Adolph Grecke · 1786

North African Miquelet Jezail (Musket)
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1789

Pair of Pellet-Lock Pistols with Case with Accessories
Charles Moore · ca. 1825

Knife with Porcelain Handle (One of a Pair)
Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1740

Cased Pair of Flintlock Pistols with Accessories
François Pirmet · ca. 1810

Dueling Pistol presented to Andrew Jackson
Artist not stated in the record

Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories
Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette · dated 1856

Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Knife with Porcelain Handle (One of a Pair)
Chantilly Porcelain Manufactory, French, active ca. 1725 - ca. 1789 · ca. 1740

Pair of Flintlock Pistols
Samuel Brunn · hallmarked for 1800–1801

Fork with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Knife)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1755–1780

Pair of Flintlock Duelling Pistols
Simeon North · ca. 1815–20

Knife with Porcelain Handle (Paired with Fork)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1755–1780
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. 115 matched · 24 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. 2859888 matched · 40 examined · 27 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 2026-09-01 05:46 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.