Two of the three New Lexington skirts in this photo were never cemented together or used on a line . The top was found by Steve Jones, Ken Willick and Bob Berry in the early 1990's in the Mortimer substation dump near Rochester, N.Y The tall base skirt was found by Ken Willick and myself in the Lockport, N.Y. substation dump in 1998 . The base was not recovered and taken home though and was left in the dump till 2009 when I went back and saved it. ... Good thing (!), as National Grid cleaned up the Lockport dump in 2010 . The top shown here remains the best that has ever been found by collectors as it is almost whole unlike all the ones that were recovered from the line and dumps in pieces and glued together in recent times . The base shown here is also interesting in that it's never been smashed and it's upper section is fully intact other then a frost crack in the very top area. All of these insulators had thredless inner skirts and were cemented to big steel pins that were later salvaged by smashing the insulators with a hammer. The inner skirts are normally badly smashed or cracked from cement expansion when found . Because this base skirt was never cemented to a pin it was not badly cracked or damaged and is about the only really good example of what they looked like when new . There is also a solitary never used center skirt for this insulator that exists which was dug By Ken Willick and myself in 1998 . I have been thinking that if this bottom and top were combined with the centre skirt that Ken and I found years ago it would make the ultimate M-3890 example ! I am not sure what ever became of that skirt though and have not herd anything about it's whereabouts in years. The centre skirt in this picture is one of the best I ever found though and together they make a really nice insulator