Prehistoric

Name

Prehistoric

Legal name

Prehistoric

Website

https://prehistoricoregon.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Natural History Collectibles Retail

NAICS

Gift, Novelty, and Souvenir Retailers (459420), Hobby, Toy, and Game Retailers (459120)

SIC

Retail-Hobby, Toy & Game Shops (5945)

akta.pro primary industry

Vintage & Antique Collectibles Retail (CRALAGAE)

akta.pro secondary industry

Historical & Military Collectibles Retail (CRALAGAM)

Keywords

• Fossil retail
• Mineral specimens
• Meteorite collectibles
• Dinosaur replicas
• Natural history collectibles

Headquarters

HQ city

Lincoln City

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Retail Sales - Physical Stores: Direct retail sales of fossils, minerals, and meteorites through two physical gallery locations. Price ranges from under $15 to millions of dollars, with museum-quality specimens and hands-on experiential retail.
2. E-commerce Online Sales: Online retail sales through the company website and eBay auctions, featuring the same product categories with shipping throughout the US.
3. Affordable Collectibles: Lower-priced items under $15 for entry-level collectors, fossil gifts, meteorite gifts, and mineral gifts.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Prehistoric is a family-owned retail gallery that sells authentic fossils, minerals, meteorites, dinosaur replicas, jewelry, historical artifacts, and related collectibles through two physical gallery locations (Lincoln City, Oregon and St. Augustine, Florida) and an e-commerce website. The company combines traditional retail with hands-on educational experiences such as geode cracking, a 25-foot gem mining sluice, and an animatronic baby T-Rex display, serving individual collectors, gift buyers, educational institutions, and museums.

Product overview

Prehistoric is a family-owned fossil, mineral, and meteorite retailer operating physical stores in Lincoln City, Oregon and St. Augustine, Florida, plus an e-commerce platform. The company offers museum-quality specimens across diverse categories including dinosaur fossils, megalodon teeth, collector minerals, meteorites, jewelry, and historical artifacts. Additional offerings include dinosaur replica models, Fitz Original Paintings, apparel, and Riker Box display collections. All purchases include a Certificate of Authenticity.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Prehistoric E-commerce Store Online retail storefront offering fossils, minerals, meteorites, and related collectibles shipped throughout the United States, with pricing from under $15 to millions of dollars for museum-quality specimens.
• Physical Gallery Retail Experience In-person retail gallery at 1425 NW Hwy 101, Lincoln City, Oregon, featuring hands-on geode cracking, a 25-foot gem mining sluice with educational digital guide, and an animatronic baby T-Rex, serving collectors and walk-in visitors.
• Dinosaur Replica Models High-quality resin dinosaur replica models (skulls, claws, jaws, full-scale dinosaurs) offered to collectors and museum buyers.
• Fitz Original Paintings Hand-painted original canvas artwork by Capt. Mike Fitz featuring aquatic, marine, and prehistoric themes, sold to art collectors and gift buyers.
• Riker Box Collections Museum-style framed display collections in multiple sizes (5x4, 8x6, 12x8 inches) featuring curated fossils, minerals, artifacts, and meteorites.
• Jewelry Wearables featuring amber, fossil shark teeth, copper-fused pieces, petrified wood pendants, metaphysical bracelets, and items from the Ron Kless Collection.
• eBay Auction Storefront Secondary online sales channel operating under the eBay handle 'prehistoricoregon' that lists fossils, minerals, and meteorites for auction-style purchase.

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Two partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• Prehistoric Auctions (eBay)minorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorSecondary sales channel through eBay store for auction-style sales of fossils, minerals, and meteorites.
• Educational InstitutionscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSchools and educational organizations receive free classes and donations. Educational outreach has connected with over 10,000 students over the years, representing a core community partnership.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop: Long-standing independent rock, fossil, mineral, and lapidary supply retailer with both a brick-and-mortar shop and e-commerce site. Directly comparable in product breadth (fossils to minerals to jewelry supplies), family-business character, and tourist-area retail footprint.
• Spirifer Minerals: Specialty mineral specimen dealer offering both budget thumbnails and high-end collector pieces to hobbyists and advanced collectors. Comparable in the collector-minerals subcategory, price ladder, and direct-to-consumer online sales model.
• iRocks.com (Mineral Classics / The Arkenstone): Online retailer of high-end collector mineral specimens, including thumbnail, cabinet-size, and museum-grade pieces from major localities worldwide. Directly comparable in the collector-minerals vertical, price ladder from affordable to $1K-$10K specimens, and certificate-of-authenticity guarantee structure.
• FossilEra: Pure-play online fossil retailer specializing in dinosaur and other vertebrate fossils, plus minerals and meteorites. Comparable in core product categories (dinosaur bones, teeth, ammonites, meteorites) and in shipping nationwide from a single-location operation, competing on the same online collector customer base.
• Paleo Direct: Specialty online retailer of authentic fossils (dinosaur, mammal, marine invertebrates) and fossil replicas. Comparable product set to Prehistoric's dinosaur and fossil-mammal categories, with overlap in collector pricing and authenticity positioning.
• The Evolution Store: NYC-based specialty retailer of natural history specimens including fossils, minerals, meteorites, and oddities, sold through a destination retail gallery plus online channels. Closely comparable to Prehistoric's hybrid gallery-plus-ecommerce model in both product mix and experiential retail positioning.

Broad incumbents

• Heritage Auctions: Major multi-category auction house with a substantial Natural History & Science department auctioning meteorites, fossils, and minerals alongside coins, fine art, and other collectibles. Competes for the same high-end specimens Prehistoric sells at its price-upon-inquiry tier.
• Christie's Nature & Science: Global auction house with an established natural history and meteorite sales program serving the same high-end collector and museum buyer segment that Prehistoric serves with its million-dollar specimens.

Emerging players

• Meteorite Forensics / Meteorites For Sale (MeteoriteMarket): Specialty online retailer focused specifically on meteorites and tektites, competing directly with Prehistoric's meteorite/space-artifact category including iron, pallasite, and lunar/martian specimens.

Others

• Western Science Center / natural-history museum gift shops: Natural history museum gift shops and visitor-center retail sites sell similar fossil/mineral/meteorite products at gift and educational price points. They are not direct competitors but represent the institutional alternative channel that targets the same hobbyist and tourist gift buyer.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/PrehistoricOR
• Facebookfacebook.com/prehistoricoregon
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/in/douglas-bradstreet-789554a
• Instagraminstagram.com/prehistoric_oregon

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles4 records

Subsidiaries3 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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