I would love to own a signed CJ one day -- there are a few out there. Marquard, Otis, Strunk, Rousch and Hooper are the ones I am aware of.
I have often considered collecting CJs. I am somewhat concerned about the the abundance of red, but I more often run into the same problem I have with the M116s -- a large stash of them were never put in with the caramel corn and were preserved over a great period of time in an envelope. Thus, you have quite a few sharp and clean CJs that unfortunately overshadow the caramel corned ones, in my opinion. You don't have the same distribution curve that you would expect based on condition of other contemporaneously produced sets.
Still, one day I may take the plunge on unsigned CJs. They are beautiful to behold.
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