If the original, now missing, gun was rebarreled by Parker, I sincerely doubt they would have used the original lug section. It was far easier to fit a new set of barrels to the gun, than completely disassemble the old set. They had unfinished barrel sets on hand and it was a simple matter to install them.
Since there were almost 80,000 VH grade guns made, predominantly in 2 frame 12 bore, there were plenty of barrel sets out there. I can see reusing the locking lugs if you were going from Top lever to Hammerless, Lifter to Top Lever, or whatever, but not hammerless to hammerless.
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