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. 20 shown for “Wheellock Mechanism for a Pistol” — 64 records examined, 32 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-30 02:30 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 Mechanism for a Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1620
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record
Double-Barreled Wheellock Pistol Made for Emperor Charles V (reigned 1519–56)
Peter Peck · ca. 1540–45
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1600–1610
Lazarino Cominazzo Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record
Double-Barreled, Double-Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1580
Wheellock Pistol
Artist not stated in the record · 1588
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Pair of Wheellock Pistols
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1655–65
German Wheellock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record
Hunting Knife Combined with Wheellock Pistol
Ambrosius Gemlich · blade ca. 1528–29, etched with a calendar for the years 1529–34; barrel dated 1540 or 1546
Combination German Wheellock Flintlock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record
Pair of Wheellock Pistols
Pierre Le Bourgeois · ca. 1610–20
German Wheellock Mechanism
Artist not stated in the record
Wheellock Pistol Made for Maximilian I of Bavaria (1573–1651)
Emanuel Sadeler · ca. 1600–1610
Light Wheellock Saddle Gun With Belt Hook
Artist not stated in the record
Pair of Wheellock Pistols Made for the Bodyguard of the Prince-Elector of Saxony
Simon Helbig · ca. 1610
Pair of Wheellock Pistols Made for the Bodyguard of the Prince-Elector of Saxony
Zacharias Herold · ca. 1590
Pair of Wheellock Pistols
Etienne Delaune · ca. 1570–80
Wheellock Gun
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1610
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 · 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. 2087139 matched · 40 examined · 32 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.8 shown
These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-30 02:30 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.