George - per the invoice you posted - Deluxe Sporting Rifle.  In the Blue Book of Values, MSR was $2195 and current values for Deluxe Sporting Rifles are
100% - $2250
98% - $2000
95% - $1650
90% - $1275
80% - $995
70% - $876
60% - $725

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Agree George the Blue Book value is pretty much a give away price and at times not even respective to a rifles real value to an end user and or collector unfortunately. The term Custom Deluxe  Sporting rifle really has very little meaning in most instances and it could just refer to an off the shelf factory made import rifle with a few minor per-say upgrades. 

JLouis

Heck, I just wish the Bluebook of gun values even covered Marlin Ballard rifles!!! And to make matters even worse, they did the Bluebook of Antique Gun Values and again left Ballard rifles out of that book!
Not sure what the people at Bluebooks have against trying to evaluate them, but they continue to not do so.

Getting ignored in the price evaluation (gun value) books isn't new. My 1955 issue of Chapel doesn't show any Winchesters except the military model of the 1895. Beyond that Winchester isn't mentioned except incidentally because of patents etc.
No highwall, or even model of 1866 is shown. 
Ballard gets only a little more, mostly the Civil War and shortly after guns being mentioned. But, that Kentucky State made the list showing a value range of $24-$36, for an increase over the others of exactly one simolian. Now, that's the price range I can  afford a Ballard at!

Ser 184  32-40

Daves choice of barrels for his Lone Star Rifles was Badger while Badger was still manufacturing BPC barrels. That being said Lone Star Rifles were built using Green Mountain, Douglas, and others.  I have or have had Lone Star rifle barrels from all the above and some that I can  not be certain of the maker.   Dave worked from castings building one rifle at a time so to speak. He had molds made by different sources. The best of those are made by and currently located at T/C. The castings from the T/C molds are slightly oversize and machine to original Remington specifications with a minimum of work compared to some other castings out there.    There are other molds at his shop made from silicone such as the internals for the #2 sporting rifle which are not so high a quality. Dave was very disappointed in the quality of the castings he received from those molds.  For his sporting model rifle Dave chose the #1 1/2 hammer and breech block design.  It was simply his personal preference. The trigger guard casting is that of the #1 sporting and works quite well for a custom build. 
Dave also did a lot of restoration work, rebarreling etc. The original sporting rifle he restored for me is not Lone Star Rifle marked and the original serial number was retained.

Kenn - Much Thanks for Your Posts.  Reading your posts about Dave living in Italy and his relationship with Pedersoli, I have always surmised that my Lone Star was built on an early Pedersoli action design due to the early serial - his barrel stamp with single punches and brass that I've never seen on a Lone Star

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