1935 Ray Gamble "Gambol with Gamble" Token - Excellent Condition - Tacoma, WA - Rare Collectible Exonumia, Part of a Set!

A good case could be made that the quirkiest, ingenious celebrity millionaire in Tacoma history was Ray Gamble. Ray’s life story defies a short telling and his adventures and acquaintances do indeed seem magical. As a young inquisitive inventor, Ray figured out a way to convert sawdust into a cellulose buffer and accelerant for explosives-just before World War One(another version he told was that the secret was given to him by an old Chinese Firecracker Man from railroad days, but that’s another long story). He sold the patent to DuPont and then made millions moving waste sawdust from mills to the DuPont explosive manufacturing plant next to Camp Lewis. From then on Ray indulged his prestidigitational interests and passion for pint-sized pachyderms along with a collectors eye for architectural illumination and ceramics. Put another way, Mr. Gamble was into magic, elephants, neon and art tile-things he gladly put on public display at local theaters, exhibitions and his remarkable home o