Thanks to you both for the visuals. It definitely does not have the spring installed. I can see the attachment point where the spring would go. I did note however that the spring attachment point is making contact (rubbing against) it's neighbor to the left, the parking brake bracket. It doesn't look like the interaction would ever be enough to block movement of the clutch pedal, but there are definitely metal filings on the outer surface of the clutch spring attachment point.
