As Dean suggests, it may have been 'upgraded' by the factory, or Delgrego, but doing so on a VH gun, to make it a VHE may have been nearly as much as a new gun. The whole fore end is an ejector fore end, as both wood and iron would have had to be changed, and the barrel has always been an ejector barrel, as it lacks the extractor stop screw, and has an ejector rib extension. All of this notwithstanding, it's entirely possible the receiver was modified, and a new barrel and fore end were fitted and numbered to match the gun. If it was done at Parker Brothers, a PGCA letter will almost certainly reflect this. Still, I think I'm safe in betting the gun left the factory new as a VHE, and the serialization book is in error.(Not exactly a rare occurrence)
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