It will scoop the ice cream but needs a small key to be turned to slide small blades to loosen it out.
And he has the first of the rotating scoops from around 1895 - those with cogs and levers to slide the scoop out.
He has scoops from every decade since, having started collecting about 12 years ago at the same time he started selling ice cream.
"I collect them because I'm fascinated in them as a tool," Mr Manning said.
And fascinated by the diversity and inventiveness of some - like one which makes the ice cream into blocks and one created by an American company called Zeroll which produced one with mercury encased in the handle.
So that when it was gripped the heat from the user's hand would transfer to the scoop and the ice cream would slide out beautifully.
"You could basically use an ordinary spoon but manufacturers continued to design and make a better one."
He also has several forerunners to the actual cone.
They were glass and specially made to contain a scoop of ice cream.
They were known as "penny licks" and ice cream sellers around 1900 would drop a scoop in, hand it over, the buyer would eat it and then hand the glass "cone" back - which the vendor would wash quickly in a bucket of water and use it again.
"The germs loved it," Mr Manning said, adding it all changed at the inaugural World Trade Fair in London in 1901 when a waffle vendor set up beside an ice cream vendor decided to make an edible cone . . . which he did, and that was that.
One of the rarest he has is one that was awarded an Australasian patent - the only one ever designed and "invented" by someone from this part of the world.
Inside the Marine Parade ice cream haven is a large mural made from about 80 scoops in the shape of an ice cream cone, and he has set up three remarkable cased displays from all eras as well as those designed around kids' themes - and they get a lot of admiring looks from youngsters.
There are also a couple of rows of them behind the counter.
He has sought them here, there and everywhere, and the internet has been a strong provider.
There was a time he figured he had the largest collection in the world until he was talking to a fellow scoop collector in Buffalo, USA.
He told Mr Manning he had about 600 of them - all different.
Mr Manning said he planned to extend the ice cream museum side of the business by putting up some old tin signs from the past.
From manufacturers like Frosty Boy, Peter Pan, Blue Moon and Adams Bruce.
All pretty . . . cool.