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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. 24 shown for “Patent Model of a Type-Distributing Machine” — 64 records examined, 20 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 21:24 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
Patent Model of a Type-Distributing Machine
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1854
Colt Model 1862 Police Revolver, serial no. 38549
Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company · ca. 1868
Patent Model of a Type-distributing Machine
Lorenz, William A. · ca 1876
House model
Nayarit artist(s) · 200 BCE–300 CE
Patent Model of a Type-distributing Machine
Fraser, Alexander · ca 1880
Mantel clock with musical movement
Jean-Baptiste-André Furet · ca. 1784
Patent Model of a Type-setting and Type-distributing Machine
Reynolds, John A. · ca 1874
Standing Figure with Jeweled Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Patent Model of a Type-composing Machine
Fraser, Alexander · ca 1880
Erasmus of Rotterdam
Hans Holbein the Younger · ca. 1532
Patent Model of a Typesetting and Distributing Machine
Slingerland, John T. · ca 1868
Longcase astronomical regulator
Ferdinand Berthoud · ca. 1768–70
Patent Model of a Typesetting and Distributing Machine
Felt, Charles W. · ca 1860
Cased Colt Model 1860 Army Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 7569, with Accessories
Samuel Colt · 1861
Patent Model of a Typesetting Machine
Lorenz, William A. · ca 1881
Patent model for adjustable reclining chairs
George A. Schastey · 1873
Patent Model of aTypesetting Machine
Lorenz, William A. · ca 1876
Head of a Central Asian Figure in a Pointed Cap
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th century
Patent Model of a Type-Composing Machine
Mitchel, William H. · ca 1854
Sofa
John Henry Belter · 1850–60
Patent Model of a Pantographic Engraving Machine
Spencer, J. Civilian · ca 1870
Colt Model 1855 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 4460, with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1856
Patent Model for a Typecasting Machine
Bruce, Jr., David · 1843
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. 287 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 3693 matched · 40 examined · 16 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 21:24 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.