Question about organisation chops / stamps

Svorai

Hi!

So I'm a little confused with how chops/stamps/etc are made, designed and used. I was hoping someone could clarify it for me?

Obviously, you need a chop certificate (in this case, an org one). So, you go and purchase one, I imagine, prior to obtaining an org chop.

Then what?

Here are my questions:

1. Do stamps require designs, like any other thing (like origami, stationery)?
2. If yes, what fields do you fill out (appearance, examined, etc)? Does someone have a basic example to show in the format you would submit as a design (so I can have an idea of what they're to look like)?
3. If not, are stamps made on the fly, then? I would think not, but the wiki on stamps seems to ambiguously suggest this...?
   
4. If the stamp is for an org... is it a physical item? Is it something that needs to be handed from CL to CL manually? Does it bind itself to the new CL, if the previous one goes dormant? Is it just a new command that all org leaders can use?
5. Anything else that people should know?

Thanks for your help.

Lavinya

1) Stamps are designed through bookbinding cartels (public design only)
2) Mine pending for example:
Item: Stamp  Type: Stamp  Org: Public  Designer: Lavinya
Commodities: marble 5 gold 5
Gold Outlay: 0
Mortal Reviews: Disallowed
IMPORTANT: The main noun MUST use one of these: STAMP, CHOP, SEAL
Appearance:
a gold-veined marble seal
Dropped:
An ivory marble stamp veined with gold has been set aside here.
Examined:
A weighty piece of ivory marble veined with gleaming gold has been
carved into this seal. With a rounded end that sits comfortably within
the palm, the seal has been flattened at one end and fitted with a gold
plate bearing a raised image, ready to be stamped onto a document.
Seal_Text:
This intricate inked image depicts a serpent weaving sinuously about the delicate petals of an amaranth blossom. Delineated in crimson, the open maw of the serpent devours its own tail in the symbol of the Eternal Ouroboros, twisting above and beneath the unfurled petals. Subtly embedded in both the fleshy petals and the scales of the Ouroboros are small, curved hooks.
Sealholder: Lavinya (person)
Comments:
3) After the design is submitted, the TM gets 50k gold back from the certificate (needed to submit the design), and when it's approved a bookbinder can craft it for the appropriate user/s
4) I think only the people with the right authority can use it, so even if it's not passed over, the old person can't use it, and new ones are cheap to atually craft. This is my presumption, anyway
5) The ink can only be red! I know that much!

Enyalida

4) Is correct, btw. It's a physical object (That will decay and all that), but only people with the sealholder priv (for a clan) or the leadership/council of an org can actually use it, no matter who actually holds it. 

Svorai

Thank you!!