There are reflections and all sorts of things going on in your pics there, I'm afraid. I can't make out what it is really like as a paperweight.
It's difficult taking pics of glass! You're concentrating on photographing the weight, but you already know what it looks like, and you simply don't see all the stuff around it or the reflections that appear on it. Your brain dismisses them. But they turn up in the image and make it very confusing for those who don't know what we're looking at at.