Romania, Socialist Republic. An Rsr Order Of The Star, Ii Class Breast Star, 1965-1989

Multi-piece construction, in gilt and silvered bronze with orange enamels, RSR coat-of-arms mounted to an orange enamelled cnetrepiece, the silvered centrepiece ring housing twenty-two glass stones and framed by a wreath of laurel leaves, all of which is mounted to a five-pointed star base, each of the arms with five emanating rays, with three emanating rays between each arm, measuring 62.5 mm (w) x 60.5 mm (h), horizontal pinback, chipping evident in the orange enamels to the right of the RSR coat-of-arms on the centrepiece, contact marks on the rays of the arms, very fine.

Footnote: The Socialist Republic of Romania (Republica Socialistă România, RSR) refers to Romania under Marxist-Leninist one-party communist rule that existed officially from 1947 to 1989. From 1947 to 1965, the state was known as the Romanian People's Republic (Republica Populară Romînă, RPR), the name changed to the Socialist Republic of Romanian in 1965 and remaining that way until the collapse of communist rule in 1989. The country was a Soviet-aligned Eastern Bloc state with a dominant role for the Romanian Communist Party enshrined in its constitutions.