Manasquan Area Realtor's World-Traveling Sign Returns To NJ

The sign that sailed the ocean blue for more than 5 years has finally made its way home to New Jersey — by plane.

Diane Turton, the Realtor whose sign washed up on the shores of Bordeaux, France, in May, recently flew to France to meet Hannes Frank and retrieve the sign that was blown away from a property during Superstorm Sandy.

Turton, her husband, Bruce, and Perry Beneduce, the real estate company's marketing director, flew to Bordeaux to meet Hannes Frank, the Belgian man who found the sign in May and then contacted the real estate company through its website on May 18.

"I was skeptical about where it could be coming from," Beneduce said, but when they checked the latitude and longitude information embedded into the digital information on photos Frank sent to them, they were able to confirm Frank was telling the truth.

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Written and reported by Karen Wall, Patch Staff

Photo provided by Perry Bonaduce of Diane Turton, Realtors, published with permission