Yeah, if real 1600s, Venetian; but is the swept-tip guard "right"? Possible the seller is quite honest & these or some might be 19th repros, but I see no bad signs. I am told repeatedly that 1400-1600 swords were to be readily had for around $50 in England and Germany up thru the 1950s, and there are a lot more around than you can prove by provenence, for certain. It could be a fake, but I don't see anything especially suspicious. It's a gamble, anD that's why it's $400 instead of $4,000. Why would eveness of corrosion make you suspicious? Niether eveness nor uneveness of corrosion are unusual.
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