The Phono-Cut Record Company produced the first vertical cut discs in the United States, from 1910 to 1913.
The vertical cut recording system was developed by Pathé in France in 1905 and did not infringe on patents held by Victor and Columbia.
Consequently, the public's marginal interest in vertical cut technology was not enough to keep Boston Talking Machine afloat, and in 1913 it was sold to Morris Keen and folded into his Keen-O-Phone firm.
Some members of the Boston Symphony Orchestra made Phono-Cut Records, among them legendary clarinetist Georges Grisez.
As they were made for a failed system, and most remaining vertical cut records were scrapped during the shellac drives of World War II, Phono-Cut discs are not common, though they are not viewed as exceptionally valuable by collectors.