I had a small glass paperweight on the window ledge.

We glided in over shallow water so clear it was like a glass paperweight in which cowrie shells and multicoloured pebbles are embedded.

There was, of course, a prosaic explanation: close to the book, on the chest, was a round glass paperweight.

An early project was a glass paperweight that he created in 1958 for a friend's retirement.

They may have appeared as a successor to the glass paperweight, which became popular a few years earlier.