RARE 1930's McGill University Cigarette Tobacco Tin WOW

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is a SUPER RARE Cigarette Tobacco Tin that bears the name of a historical University - namely McGill University in Quebec, Canada. This cigarette tin was issued in the 1930's with the permission of the faculty of McGill to raise funds for a new gymnasium they were building. The university gave their permission for the distribution of the cigarettes and even was said that they had hoped the students "would do their part and smoke them". Truely a RARE tobacco tin and seldom seen. The tin itself is in decent shape with usual wear and tear. The exise tax stamp is barely visible on bottom left of tin. Hinge is straight and opens and closes with ease. Buyer to add shipping cost of $4.00. The University imposed whatever austerity measures it could, and hunkered down to wait out the tough times. In an effort to help alumni cope with what Chancellor Edward Beatty called the "satellite scourge of unemployment," the Graduates' Society opened the Employment Bureau in 1931. It reported in its first year that t had been "no fewer than four calls for men to fill positions with salaries from $5,000 to $10,000 or upwards." (At that time, the average annual salary in Canada was around $1,000.) Unfortunately, the Bureau became too great a drain on Graduates' Society funds, and closed at the end of 1934, having found jobs -- few of them at exalted salaries read more

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