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. 16 shown for “Sword with Scabbard and Belt Hook” — 64 records examined, 37 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-29 07:19 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Sword with Scabbard and Belt Hook
Artist not stated in the record · 18th century
Schuyler, Hartley & Graham Presentation Sword, Ames Manufacturing Co. Scabbard Inscribed "Genl. U.S. Grant Galena Ill's, Presented by G.W. Graham, C.B. Lagow, C.C. Marsh & John Cook 1861"
Schuyler, Hartley & Graham · 1861
Smallsword with Scabbard
Master GG · hallmarked 1773–74
Wakizashi Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · 17th–19th century
Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool (1784–1869)
Samuel Jackson · 1854–55
Toledo 1873 Presentation Sword
Artist not stated in the record · 1873
Hunting Sword with Scabbard
Joseph Deutschmann · ca. 1740
Presentation Sword, Inscribed "Major General E.W. Ripley U.S. Army"
Targee, John · ca 1812
Saber with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · grip, 18th or 19th century; guard and scabbard, 19th century; blade, dated A.H. 1099/1688 CE; decoration on blade, 19th century
Sword and Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 60 BCE
Sheet-gold decoration for a sword scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 340–320 BCE
Saber with Scabbard and Carrying Belt
Georg Hoffmann · early 17th century
Nimcha (Saber) with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · hilt and scabbard, late 17th or early 18th century; blade 16th or 17th century
Congressional Presentation Sword with Scabbard of Colonel Marinus Willett (1740–1830)
C. Liger · hallmarked for 1785–86
Scimitar with Scabbard
Artist not stated in the record · late 16th–17th century
Dagger with Scabbard
Wolf Paller · ca. 1575
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. 1046 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. 1610537 matched · 40 examined · 36 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.4 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 07:19 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.