Old hockey cards and a Rembrandt-ish painting: Some attic treasures are auctioned for millions
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Art auctions can be fickle.
Kaja Veilleux has been hunting New England attic treasures for more than 50 years. He once found a copy of the Declaration of Independence sitting on a pile of trash, and he made headlines this year when he stumbled upon a million-dollar portrait gathering dust in an old farmhouse in Maine that may have been painted by the Dutch master Rembrandt.