Jim, I have seen it in black and white that F/S knives were issued to soldiers unsharpened but I can't remember exactly where, at the moment. As I have mentioned I do have several 2nd pattern F/S knives with no sharp edge. All the 3rd pattern knives that I do have, do have a sharp edge and some of these 3rd pattern knives look factory sharpened while others look hand sharpened. I suspect that there was some variation with some knives leaving the factory with a sharp edge and some not. Likewise, often the 2nd pattern knives don't have the F/S logo on the blade but clearly the example of mine in post 13 does.