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 “Winchester Repeating Arms Company” — 64 records examined, 44 dropped by the rights gate.
Archives queried 2026-08-26 22:43 UTC · fetched live for this request
isPublicDomain field is true for this object.metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 120528)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1899–1900
Winchester Model 1886 Takedown Rifle (serial no. 125176)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1901
Winchester Model 1895 Takedown Rifle (serial no. 81851)
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1913
Winchester Model 1894 Takedown Rifle (serial no. 311946) with Box of Sights
Winchester Repeating Arms Company · 1906
Smith & Wesson Model 1 ½ Second Issue Revolver (serial no. 30451) with Case
Smith & Wesson · 1869
Smith & Wesson .44 Double-Action Frontier Model Revolver decorated by Tiffany & Co. (serial no. 8401), with Case and Cleaning Rod
Smith & Wesson · ca. 1893
Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940
Samuel Colt · ca. 1840
Colt Walker Percussion Revolver, serial no. 1017
Samuel Colt · 1847
Evans Repeating Rifle Co. Transition Model Lever Action Musket
Evans Repeating Rifle Company · ca. 1876
Dagger with Hilt of Leafy Plants
Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1640
Workbook Recording the Engraved Firearms Ornament of Louis D. Nimschke (1832–1904)
Louis Daniel Nimschke · ca. 1850–1900
Plate with the arms of Jean-Euverte Miron de la Mothe (1757–1835) and his wife, Angélique Crignon de Bonvalet (1746-1839)
Alexis Micalef · 1765–66
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. 46 matched · 24 examined · 4 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. 138039 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 2026-08-26 22:43 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.