I got into the 48 set about 20+ years ago and have been trying to slowly build a gray set. I have no knowledge of a 48 basketball box known in existence. Even for 1948 baseball, the one box that surfaced in 2017 was the single example known.
There are a couple box toppers and the belief is that the basketball and football sets were in a plain packing box with the header added for counter sales.
Here is a much later 1954 Bowman football box, but exhibits the style I would expect from bowman for basketball or football. Very plain with a header for dime store display
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- Justin D.
Player collecting - Lance Parrish, Jim Davenport, John Norlander.
Successful B/S/T with - Highstep74, Northviewcats, pencil1974, T2069bk, tjenkins, wilkiebaby11, baez578, Bocabirdman, maddux31, Leon, Just-Collect, bigfish, quinnsryche...and a whole bunch more, I stopped keeping track, lol.
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