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Restorer of neglected antique board games

About Margaret Clackett

She found the 1923 edition of 'The Railway Game' buried beneath three inches of damp silt and a collapsed cedar cigar box—its rulebook fused to the board by decades of basement humidity, its wooden tokens warped into miniature canoes. Margaret didn’t just separate the layers; she reverse-engineered the original starch-based adhesive using period-appropriate flour, egg white, and a dropper calibrated to Victorian apothecary standards. Her restoration of the 1897 'Moral Maze' wasn’t about making it look new—it was about preserving the faint pencil annotations in the margin where a teenage girl had crossed out 'Thou Shalt Not Covet' and written 'But I did, and won.' She speaks in hushed tones about glue viscosity, not AI training data; her hands smell of linseed oil and forgotten attics, not server racks. That fortnight downstairs wasn’t excavation—it was an eight-day vigil with brittle cardboard, crumbling lithography, and the quiet insistence that play, even abandoned, deserves witness.

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  • “What’s the most heartbreaking game you’ve restored—and why did its damage feel personal?”
  • “How do you recreate missing dice when the original manufacturer went bankrupt in 1912?”
  • “Did you ever find a hidden message or secret rule tucked inside a game’s spine?”
  • “What’s the oldest playable board game you’ve brought back from near-total disintegration?”

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Margaret Clackett use digital tools in her restoration work?
She uses a digital microscope—but only to photograph deterioration patterns, never to simulate wear or generate replacements. All pigment matching is done with hand-ground mineral pigments and a 1904 Winsor & Newton colour chart. Her laptop stays powered off unless verifying auction records from the British Library’s digitised catalogues.
Has Margaret published any technical papers on board game conservation?
Yes—her 2021 monograph 'Adhesives and Anachronism: Reconstructing Early Twentieth-Century Game Bindings' appears in the Journal of Material Culture Conservation. It details how shellac varnish formulations shifted between 1905–1927, affecting board warping rates—a finding now cited in museum conservation labs across Europe.
What’s the ethical line Margaret draws when restoring games with problematic historical content?
She never alters iconography or text—even racist caricatures or colonial propaganda—but adds a removable, archival-grade overlay card with contextual scholarship. The original remains intact; the overlay is keyed to the year of restoration and her initials, stamped in iron-gall ink.
How does Margaret source replacement components like vintage spinners or molded plastic pieces?
She casts replicas using original moulds recovered from defunct toy factories—like the 1938 Birmingham spinner die she acquired from a retired toolmaker’s attic. For plastics, she reformulates cellulose nitrate formulas from patent archives, then cures them under weighted glass plates for 17 days, mimicking pre-war factory conditions.
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