bronze medal help

[dianer]

I have a bronze medal that, I think, has dutch writing around the edges.  It is a large medal and on one side has a picture of someone on a horse.  Around the edges reads:  "int. sport visscherij- en-paarden tentoonstelling.  Below this reads: "HM de konnigin regentes juni -oct 1892.  On the other side it reads:" toegekend aan". 

There is no-one that I can ask in the family about this medal.  Does anyone know what this medal is for and what it means?  Any help would be really appreciated.

Thanks

Dianer

[MKG]

Last bit is fairly straightforward - "Her Majesty the regent queen (should be "koningin") June-October 1892. Other side - Awarded to ... (should be a name here).

The regent queen was Emma, the mother of Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina had to wait until she was 18 to actually take the throne)

Looking at part one ...

Mike

EDIT - first part ... International sport (fishing???) and horse exhibition. The "fishing" should be right, although I've never seen the actual word in the inscription.

[MKG]

On second thoughts, I'm not really happy with visscherij as fishing - it doesn't make an awful lot of sense with horses, does it?

Visserij, meaning fishery, is the nearest I can get, but I can find no trace of the word "Visscherij". Can you recheck that one?

Mike

[dianer]

Hi Mike,

I have re-checked and the word in question is "Visscherij".

Do you think that this is some kind of  dutch sporting medal?

Thanks

Dianer

[MKG]

Certainly is ...

Thinking a little more, the root "rij" means ride, so visscherij may mean some type of horseriding - maybe showjumping? That would make more sense.

Mike

[MKG]

Back to square one. A little more research - visscherij is the older Flemish spelling of the modern term visserij (I should have thought longer - this was 1892 and the modern Dutch language wasn't really defined until 1947) - so it really was a fishing and horse exhibition!

Mike

[dianer]

Hi Mike,

this throws some light on it now.  Thank you for your help.

Kind regards

Dianer