[Swordmaker]

I'm going to post it a bit smaller so we don't have to scroll around the screen to see it.

As to its authenticity, I have some problems. It does not look like the kind of document I would expect the British Colonials to have come up with. Why are "Where and when born" combined into a single box, yet "Time of birth" is separate in its own box? What's with the "No" under the word "Columns"? Why an "attending physician" and "Signature of Physician" that look like completely different words?

If I were designing this form, I would have a place for the person who filled it in to sign it.

Finally, the security watermarking on the paper seems to be in German or perhaps Dutch... Yet this is a British Colony. Something's not kosher. I can make out what seems to be "...KERHIET GOED DUT DIT ZALNUT VERANDIRES DIT IST GEEN GELDIG DOCUMENT VAN DE OVELHEID. DIT IS POLITIEKI COMMINTAAR HU IS VOURZITTER VOOR MINSTEN DREI EN EEN HALT VAN . . ." Could be South African Afrikaans?

Any body with better eyes than me?

[dinodino]

This looks fake as hell. I wouldn’t bother posting it any more. The one in Orly’s motion, however...exciting!

[Swordmaker]

Oops... I removed the size constraint to read the watermark and forgot in my delirium to replace it. Let's post that pic again:

There, that's better.

[livius]

Where did this “certificate of birth” come from? The language in the watermark is Dutch, saying something to the effect that it if there are any changes it is not a valid document, so it’s clearly official paper from some Dutch speaking country, possibly South Africa. But why would Kenya be using South African paper (in 1961 or at any other time)?

[SFConservative]

From the watermark:

DIT IS GEEN GELDIG DOCUMENT VAN DE OVERHEID. DIT IS POLITIEKE COMMENTAAR

Translated:

"This is not a valid document from the Government. This is political commentary."

So it is a very nicely done (and acknowledged) fake.