Does anyone know anything about Kenneth Rendell, who is supposedly a member of the mysterious Ritten

Longacre

I was looking at a coin document, and it listed a fixed price list of US Large Cents from 1958 by Kenneth W. Rendell. The text described the book, in part, as follows:

“Though a modest-looking production, this list by Rendell (who left the coin hobby to become perhaps the foremost authority on historical documents, the field in which he remains today) includes a number of significant cents, and as such, is important for tracing pedigrees and developing the condition census. Rendell was a very promising numismatist-- indeed, he was a member of the exclusive Rittenhouse Society—before a shift in careers. …”

--Does anyone know anything about Rendell?
--Why did he leave numismatics?
--Was he a dealer or mainly an author?
--Did he resign from the Rittenhouse Society?
--Does anyone know if there is some sort of a “continuing education” requirement for the Rittenhouse Society (in other words, you need to continue to write and do scholarly things, or else you are bounced out of the organization)?

Dentuck

Take a gander:

Rendell Exposed

Pistareen

Ken remains a member of the Rittenhouse Society in good standing. He pays his annual dues of $0.

John Kraljevich
Rittenhouse Society
Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Assistant Deputy Secretary, Pro Tem.

(Ken is a really incredible guy, actually. His collection of WWII memorabilia is unparalled -- he once dropped FDR's top hat from Yalta on my head. His book The Western Pursuit Of The American Dream: Selections From The Collection Of Kenneth W. Rendell is gorgeous and includes some numismatic content. He gained worldwide fame for exposing the Hitler Diaries as frauds. I wish we saw him at more coin shows!)

Regarding other questions:

--> Once you're in, you're in for life. It's like the mob, but we meet for breakfast, not dinner.
--> Ken was a founding member and was once primarily a specialist in numismatic Americana.
--> What's so mysterious about us?

Longacre

<< <i>Ken remains a member of the Rittenhouse Society in good standing. He pays his annual dues of $0.

John Kraljevich
Rittenhouse Society
Deputy Assistant Secretary to the Assistant Deputy Secretary, Pro Tem.

(Ken is a really incredible guy, actually. His collection of WWII memorabilia is unparalled -- he once dropped FDR's top hat from Yalta on my head. His book The Western Pursuit Of The American Dream: Selections From The Collection Of Kenneth W. Rendell is gorgeous and includes some numismatic content. He gained worldwide fame for exposing the Hitler Diaries as frauds. I wish we saw him at more coin shows!)

Regarding other questions:

--> Once you're in, you're in for life. It's like the mob, but we meet for breakfast, not dinner.
--> Ken was a founding member and was once primarily a specialist in numismatic Americana.
--> What's so mysterious about us? >>




Thanks for the info. I checked out that book on his website and it looks really good. I put it on my Amazon list!

And any organization that does not have a website is mysterious in my book.

DaveG

Mr. Rendell must have been 15 when he published that fixed price list of large cents.

I guess I'm just an underachiever!

Barry

Is he related to our illustrious governor Ed?

RWB

Sorry, can't tell you without the secret handshake.

Pistareen

<< <i>Mr. Rendell must have been 15 when he published that fixed price list of large cents. >>



He and QDB were teenage best friends and remain pals today. They were the infants terribles of the 1950s.

Ken also put out a very important list of Hard Times tokens from the Miller Collection at about the same time, 1959.

Coinosaurus

I believe Rendell is still in the paper collectables business and has locations in Manhattan. I am sure I have walked past one of them, on Park or Madison Avenue maybe? The Bowers house organs have mentioned his name from time to time.