Back in the early 60s I lived near EMI factory, and instead of sorting out their boxes of resistors, they dumped the lot, and we budding radio hams would recycle them from the tip , and seperate them into values, so we got to know the colours well.
( never quite got rid of the tip smell though 
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My favourite colour was always the 47k ( I have to think here to write it down - Yellow Mauve Orange ) which without prompting was also my Daughters favourite " pretty " one whan she used to help me assemble many years ago.