About CarryCollect

My name is C Marc Fellows. CarryCollect LLC is an Ohio company, and I run it. When you write to vault@carrycollect.app, I am the one who reads it. If you would rather send a letter, ask and I will give you the address.

I also run the We Carry Each Other collector community, and I do not run it alone. There is a moderator group, and they vote. My job is to break a tie, or to say something when I think we are drifting from what the group was for. CarryCollect works the same way: Founders vote on where the Carry Fund gives, and a moderator here cannot rule on their own case.

I started We Carry Each Other in May 2015, because I had watched a collector group get run for whoever owned it and I did not want to be in another one. I loved the art. I loved Jermaine's work. I loved the people I had met collecting it. What I wanted was somewhere we could trust each other, where the community came first, long before it became anyone's personal goldmine or a flipping channel.

I brought on a moderator early. For years I gave away handbills every Wednesday, and HandbillHumpDay still runs, on this site now. When another group for the same artist started growing alongside ours, I asked its founders to moderate WCEO instead. They said yes.

Eleven years later that is still the first rule, and the group's rules came with us when it adopted CarryCollect as its marketplace. One of them says a group is not meant to be anyone's personal poster goldmine. That was easy to mean about a Facebook group. It is harder here, where I take a cut, and it still has to be true.

I built all this instead of keeping a spreadsheet because the record kept disappearing. Trampt closed this year, and a decade of catalogue work went with it. People who had spent years documenting editions and variants found out that the archive they were building was never theirs.

So the record comes first. The Archive is public and free, no account needed, and it stays that way. Not free for now. Free. If this company ever goes under, the catalogue should outlive it.

The Archive is the catalogue: more than eight thousand public pieces, with editions, variants, and the source image an artist worked from. Anyone can read it without signing in.

The Registry is where you record the specific copy you own. Certification confirms it at three levels, and at Gold the provenance record is written to Solana, which is not a database I can edit. Pieces change hands on the Exchange, with escrow, tracked shipping, and recorded sale prices so comparables stay honest.

One percent of every sale and every membership goes to the Carry Fund. All of it passes through. No cut taken, remitted quarterly, with a published report. Right now it lands at St. Jude, and the Founders Circle votes on where it goes next.

You do not have to take my word for any of this. Paste a certificate ID into the verify page and you get the record back, with no account and no fee. If the piece is Gold certified you also get its Solana address, which you can open in a block explorer I do not control. And if a serial number matches more than one piece, the page tells you so instead of picking one, because serials repeat and a confident wrong answer is worse than none.

Fees are on the pricing page, not buried in the Terms. If you find something on this site that contradicts something else on this site, tell me and I will fix it. I have found a few myself.

The motto is older than the company, and it goes both ways: we carry each other, or we ruin each other.

What that looks like here is mostly unglamorous. Somebody photographs a variant nobody had on record, and now it is on record. When an artist claims their page, they get to say how their own work is described. The seller who lists the flaw instead of hiding it loses a little on that sale and keeps the market worth being in.

I have been doing this with a lot of the same people for eleven years, and some of them moderate both places now. I would like to keep doing it.