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 “Wheellock Gun” — 64 records examined, 29 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 04:51 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Wheellock Gun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610
Light Wheellock Saddle Gun With Belt Hook
Artist not stated in the record
Wheellock gun
Cominazzo workshop · mid-17th century
German Wheellock Rifle
Artist not stated in the record
Wheellock Gun of Philippe de Croy, Prince of Chimay (1526–1595)
Artist not stated in the record · 1551–56
German Flintlock Rifle Conversion from Wheellock
Artist not stated in the record · ca 1655
Wheellock Gun Made for the Bodyguard of the Prince-Elector of Saxony
Artist not stated in the record · dated 1589
German Wheellock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record
Wheellock Gun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1730–40
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record
Wheellock Gun
Artist not stated in the record · 17th century
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record
Wheellock Rifle
Johannes Hartel · ca. 1650–60
Wheellock Petronel
Artist not stated in the record
Double-Barrel Breech-Loading Pinfire Shotgun
J. C. A. Brun · dated 1866
Lazarino Cominazzo Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record
Wheellock Rifle
Caspar Spät · ca. 1640–50
Combination German Wheellock Flintlock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record
Wheellock Rifle
Caspar Spät · dated 1668
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · 1588
Wheellock Rifle
Daniel Sadeler · ca. 1610–30
German Wheellock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record
Pair of Wheellock Pistols
Etienne Delaune · ca. 1570–80
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. 47 matched · 24 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. 8577 matched · 40 examined · 29 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.11 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 04:51 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.