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. 23 shown for “Pitney Bowes Inc.” — 64 records examined, 27 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-01 17:49 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 500 BCE
Mail-O-Mat postage meter and collection box
Pitney Bowes Inc. · 1939
"Antonius" Violin
Antonio Stradivari · 1711
Pitney Bowes Paragon mail processor prototype
Pitney Bowes Inc. · 1992
Diana and Cupid
Pompeo Batoni · 1761
Universal cancelling machine
Pitney Bowes Inc. · 20th Century
Wing Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 100–200
Touchamatic desktop postage metering machine
Pitney Bowes Inc. · 1968
Square-Headed Bow Brooch
Artist not stated in the record · 500–600
Pitney Bowes Model A M meter machine
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1920
Abraham Lincoln: The Man (Standing Lincoln)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens · 1884–87; reduced 1910; cast 1911
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions stampless folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · August 5, 1846
Portrait of Charlotte Duchesne
Philippe de Champaigne · ca. 1628
Liberian stampless folded letter
Artist not stated in the record · c. 1852
Tromba Marina
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850
Transorma Mail Sorting Machine sign
Werkspoor N.V., Dutch · 1957
Kongōyasha Myōō
Artist not stated in the record · 12th century
Pitney Bowes DM-3 postage meter
Artist not stated in the record · 1950s-1960s
Bow Drill
Artist not stated in the record · 10th century
Pitney Bowes DM-3 postage meter
Artist not stated in the record · 1950s-1960s
Nock of a bow
Artist not stated in the record
Pitney Bowes Model CVS-1 postage metering machine
Artist not stated in the record · 20th Century
Pitney Bowes Model M postage meterhead
Artist not stated in the record · 1920
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. 94 matched · 24 examined · 13 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.11 shown - Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field:
content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 40613 matched · 40 examined · 14 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 17:49 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.