Have you tried putting a file to it? A spring would normally be a plain medium to high carbon steel.
You can also touch the metal on a bench grinding wheel and observe the sparks. I'm not expert on interpretation but there is plenty of information available on the internet.
Most scrap merchants these days have portable analysers if you're worried about it being an alloy steel; ask a favour.
IF, and it's a big IF, your images are of a polished and etched section the microstructure is consistent with a plain, hypereutectoid steel but I would need more information on your images to give you information on which you could act