Help me date this Kodak backing paper

Well, it's the usual story. Bought a folder, found a roll of Verichrome Pan in it, planning on developing it. But I do not have any clue about how old it might be (would be fun to know, and might help me with the processing). Anyone?

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I think that the supply spool was all metal.

VP was first released in 1956 and discontinued around 2002 for 120 size.

Hmm, might be one step closer now. Googling for backing paper gave me nothing, but the style of the box on the top here matches the tiles on my Exposed-strip...



I've seen rolls on the auction site with the styling of the lower box with expiration dates for 1962. I guess that would put my film (if I am correct about the packaging) somewhere between 1956 (introduction of VP) and 1961-62.

I've collected film cartons over the years (or, perhaps, more accurately, just accumulated them...."more junk" as my wife occasionally hints. )
Certainly the "cleaner" design of the lower box seems to have been in use by around 1960, and also appears to have been a new "house-style" pattern used then on other types of Kodak film from that time. I can just about remember this lower design with metal spools for 120 films for my first Brownie Cresta camera when I was very young, but plastic seemed to be the norm by the time I first started developing my own films in the late 60's. (I have a feeling that Ilford used metal spools for several years after Kodak had switched to plastic.)
But "Photo Engineer" might be able to help more accurately with the dating of your film, if he's online at the moment ?

Plastic spools, if my recollection is correct, were 1980's and after.

The fact that the spool is metal and not plastic is also important in dating the film.

If the film is exposed, then it is on the take up spool, which originated from a separate roll of film.

You need to pay attention to the spool in the feed side of the camera.

MattKing said:

If the film is exposed, then it is on the take up spool, which originated from a separate roll of film.

You need to pay attention to the spool in the feed side of the camera.

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Already thought of that. I saved the supply reel back in january '14 and it is metal. Still amazed that I managed to find it now...