Help with dating a recently picked up Lemon Peel Baseball

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Hello fellow board members,

My dad recently picked up this nice lemon peel baseball at an estate auction a few weeks ago, and I want to pick the baseball expert's brains on this board. I am more of a football collector, and have never come across a lemon peel in person before. The ball has 4 leather panels that meet on one end in the lemon peel shape, and the opposite side the leather panels are sewn to about 1 inch of eachother. The ball is in very nice condition, is pretty light, and appears to be made of twine. It has a circumference of about 8 inches, and is about 2.5 inches wide in diameter.
From the research I've done, I thought this ball date to the 1850s? Am I accurate with that date? Also, any thoughts on value?