This Tiki soap die belonged to Ted Burbery, who co-owned New Plymouth's Crusader Soap Products in the 1940s and 1950s. The best known products that the company manufactured, in a factory on the edge of the Waiwhakaiho River near Devon Street, were Tiki Soap and Fairy Wonder Soap. The factory also sold soda crystals to local dairy factories for them to sterilise their vats and they made bone dust by grinding down bones collected from local butchers to make fertiliser. It closed in the mid 1950s when competition became too tough.