Cigarette tin

From the foundation of the South Australian colony migrants played the sports that were part of their life back 'home'. The leading Englishmen in the colony used sport to parade their wealth and social position. The games they played were the games of the English provincial gentry. Their favourite pursuits of hunting, sailing and polo required money and leisure, thus effectively excluding most people.

View of lid with engraved polo players. A hinged tin featuring an impressed depiction of men playing polo on the lid, and the words 'W D & H O Wills' in one corner and 'Polo cigarettes' in another.

Inside of tin showing reverse of lid and paper lining. A hinged tin featuring an impressed depiction of men playing polo on the lid, and the words 'W D & H O Wills' in one corner and 'Polo cigarettes' in another. The tin contains a pink paper liner on which 'A Distinctive Cigarette in a Distinctive Packing' is printed in black ink. It also contains 6 white studs for men's shirt collar.