Two 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. 24 shown for “The New Yost Patent Model” — 64 records examined, 17 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-09-05 23:35 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940
Samuel Colt · ca. 1840

The New Yost Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1889

Colt Model 1862 Police Revolver, serial no. 38549
Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company · ca. 1868

George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1886

Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 3, Belt Model, Serial no. 156, with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1838

George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1889-07-30

Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1885

Sofa
John Henry Belter · 1850–60

George W. N. Yost Typewriter Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1889

Patent model for adjustable reclining chairs
George A. Schastey · 1873

Screw Propeller, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1875

Colt Model 1851 Navy Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2
Samuel Colt · 1850

Patent Model, Tug for Towing Canal Boats
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Rank patent
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1761

Schilling Canal Boat Propulsion System, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1871

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Samuel W. Francis Typewriter Patent Model
Francis, Samuel Ward · 1857-10-27

The Jabach Family
Charles Le Brun · ca. 1660

Screw Propellor, Patent Model
Artist not stated in the record · 1892
![[Man Demonstrating Patent Model for Sash Window], by Unknown](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimages.metmuseum.org%2FCRDImages%2Fph%2Fweb-large%2FDP-32823-035.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
[Man Demonstrating Patent Model for Sash Window]
Unknown · late 1850s–60s

Patent Model for Hosley Ship's Model Measurer, 1851
Artist not stated in the record · 1851

Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1851 Navy Revolver (serial no. 20133), with Case and Accessories
Samuel Colt · ca. 1853

Patent Model for the Manufacture of Rubber Fabrics
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1844
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. 53 matched · 24 examined · 2 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. 1473327 matched · 40 examined · 15 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 2026-09-05 23:35 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.