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 “Pistol Shield” — 63 records examined, 40 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-02 02:24 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Pistol Shield
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525 and later
Pistol Shield
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1525 and later
Wheellock Pistol
Peter Danner · ca. 1580
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1560–70
Wheellock Pistol, French Royal Arms Collection, inv. no. 217
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1625–30
Pair of Wheellock Pistols Made for the Bodyguard of the Prince-Elector of Saxony
Simon Helbig · ca. 1610
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1590
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1570–80
Six-Barreled Pepperbox Disk Primer Pistol with Case and Accessories
Joseph Rock Cooper · ca. 1840–1850
Wheellock Puffer Pistols
Balthasar Dressler · ca. 1585
Flintlock Repeating Pistol with Lorenzoni Action, Bearing the Crests of Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758–1805), with Case and Accessories
Harvey Walklate Mortimer · ca. 1798–99
Wheellock Pistols with Holsters and Horse Trappings
Artist not stated in the record · 17th 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. 23 matched · 23 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. 130476 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 2026-09-02 02:24 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.