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It was only during the Covid pandemic, when 'Tassie' needed a seam-bowling all-rounder, that Webster took it seriously and was helped by renowned pace-bowling coach Adam Griffith.

As Penny Wong, the foreign minister, said to an Australian radio station this week: “Like most Australians, I was pretty shocked to realize that Tassie devils was not a name that we had the rights over.”

For Tassie tiger hunter and school teacher Murray McAllister, 60, from Dandenong in Melbourne’s south-east, there are two facets: love of the uniquely Australian animal, and human connection.

“I’m petrified,” said Tassie Zahner, a history teacher at Northwood High School in Silver Spring, Md. “I don’t want to get sick and die for my job.”

She added the seals, made in the style of the Scottish modeler James Tassie around the turn of the 19th century, to her already extensive collection, which has often served as inspiration for the engraved medallions, rings and earrings that make up her four-year-old line.