Kenya, Republic. A Chief Of The Order Of The Burning Spear, I Class Star, C.1970 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac above silvered oak leaves and

above silvered oak leaves and a date of “1923”

large rosette with its original ribbon

that he had a "painful shoulder (left) and muscle hernia (right leg)"

measuring 115 mm x 295 mm

This particular buckle is illustrated on page 141 of "Belt Buckles & Brocades of the Third Reich

Kenya, Republic. A Chief Of The Order Of The Burning Spear, I Class Star, C.1970 consisting of a blue enamelled Romanian Cross with clusters of nine gilt rays in eac above silvered oak leaves andInstituted in 1966. Two piece construction, silver gilt centrepiece disk bearing crossed spears fronted by a large pole, within a dual ringed circle, mounted to a sixteen pointed star base, marked "C. B. S." (Chief of the Order of the Burning Spear) on the reverse, measuring 90. 7 mm (w) x 90. 7 mm (h), vertical pinback, scattered gilt wear on the centrepiece disk, contact marks, better than very fine. Footnote: The Order of the Burning Spear was