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 “Royal Presentation Sword” — 64 records examined, 41 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-03 16:13 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sword
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1400
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55
Royal Presentation Sword
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Presentation Smallsword with Scabbard
James Morisset · hallmarked for 1797–98
Rapier of Prince-Elector Christian II of Saxony (1583–1611)
Israel Schuech · dated 1606
Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)
C. Liger · hallmarked for 1785–86
Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Brigadier General Daniel Davis (1777–1814) of the New York Militia
John Targee · ca. 1815–17
Armor Garniture of George Clifford (1558–1605), Third Earl of Cumberland
Jacob Halder · 1586
Sheet-gold decoration for a sword scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 340–320 BCE
Rapier of Emperor Charles V (1500–1558)
Francesco Negroli · ca. 1550–53
Partisan Carried by the Bodyguard of Louis XIV (1638–1715, reigned from 1643)
Bonaventure Ravoisie · ca. 1678–1709
Standing Figure with Feathered Headdress
Artist not stated in the record · 12th–early 13th 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. 3187 matched · 24 examined · 1 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. 36560 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 2026-09-03 16:13 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.