You have presented us with an interesting pattern and mark. I am the general editor of the TCC database (the "expert" referred to above). At first I thought this was a discussion to be moved to the Facebook page, and I don't do Facebook, so I just wrote down some thoughts for the web administrator. My reasons for calling it a repro:
1) It looks new
2) The mark: Initials of the maker and/or importer-retailer are NOT found on either side of the mark in the 19th century. The initials or name will be found above, within, or below the mark.
3) There is no known potter or importer that used those initials -- British, European, or US.
4) The motifs of the pattern are loosely based on the Greek pattern series of Spode; however, none of them are authentic.
I don't know the name or maker of that brown cup and saucer you found on your link, but there is a motif on the cup that is titled "Attack of the Griffin" and can be found in the database as P906-14 in the Greek pattern by Spode a motif on the rim of the saucer is a scene titled, "Polydeuces and the King's Daughter". From looking at that cup and saucer and identifying those two motifs, I think that pattern has a better chance of being made in the 19th century than your Grecian plate.
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