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. 12 shown for “Percussion Pistol” — 64 records examined, 43 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 22:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Percussion Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · mid-19th century; barrel, dated A.H. 1207/1792–93 CE; lock, ca. 1825–50
Percussion Pistol with Case
Alfred Gauvain · possibly 1844
Percussion Exhibition Pistol
Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page · dated 1849
Percussion Exhibition Pistol
Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page · dated 1851
Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols
Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette · ca. 1850
Percussion Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1860
Two Percussion Exhibition Pistols
Gilles Michel Louis Moutier-Le Page · dated 1849 and 1851
Cased Pair of Percussion Pistols with Accessories
Louis-Julien Gastinne-Renette · dated 1856
Pair of Percussion Target Pistols Made for Display at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851
Alfred Gauvain · dated 1851
Pair of Percussion Target Pistols Made for Display at the 1844 Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie in Paris
Alfred Gauvain · dated 1844
Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853
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. 56 matched · 24 examined · 3 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. 3354 matched · 40 examined · 40 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.0 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-05 22:19 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.