those rolls expired in September of 1958, and their diamond date mark points toward them being produced in 1957.
but, the dot in the date code on the two boxes I got today means they were produced in 1956—the same year Verichrome Pan was first sold by Kodak.
unfortunately it's unlikely I'll get much better than the emulsion-hole filled photos from the other rolls; beside possibly high temperatures, these boxes must've gotten wet, judging by the staining on the boxes and the fact the glue holding the flaps has let go. hopefully, regardless of that, these turn out as well as the other three rolls of Verichrome Pan (which, you may be seeing more of soon™).
unlike the last roll of VP116, also exp. September 1958, this roll was not badly affected by vinegar syndrome... but it does have heavy fogging. zoom in those three scans (that's not all dust!) and you'll see what I mean; half of the silver halide must've been too oxidized or otherwise damaged to develop, even with my pretty reliable HC-110 semi-stand cold development technique. unless the image is small enough/far enough away, the blur from the stippling is bad enough to make the image look out of focus!
these three frames, particularly the second one of the stairs climbing up away from the camera, were the only recoverable ones. I'm glad the second frame survived, as it's particularly poignant (those were once stairs up to a now demolished house from an abandoned stretch of street, almost 20 years after the street was moved northward and widened into a stroad. both it and the first frame were taken from the leaf-buried, frost-heaved, and root-torn cobblestone sidewalk.)
