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That's not exactly accurate either. I have a book (Edward Ezell"s Handguns of the World) that shows a photograph of a rough tool room prototype built by Mr. Browning in 1922 that looks like it was made with only files and stones. It appears to be a single stack. I have read that Browning was not in favor of making the gun a double stack but after he died Saive changed it into a double stack. It looks exactly like what became the High Power although the final design went through many changes before it was called the High Power. The barrel lockup and trigger linkage were most definitely Browning's design. He believed he could "improve" the 1911's design. Although Mr Saive did finish the design after Browning's death. I guess it really depends on how we define "High Power".