armstead jr. was able to buy out his siblings share and by forfeiting his share of another family property, he was able to do that. the siblings also divided, like i said, the collection and took an inventory because the collection included furniture, jewelry and clothing and decorative objects including numerous objects formally owned by george and martha washington. to ensure that the collection of washington objects and everything at tudor place was equally divided, they began the task of inventorying family possessions, each object was given a number and a small sticker and objects associated with george and martha washington were given an additional mount vernon label. the siblings identified more than 500 objects ranging from martha washington's writing table to a piece of soap that formally belonged to george and martha washington. and yes, the piece of soap is still in the collection today. the 1911 inventory is an equally important historic document. describing each object in noting its l